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Adelehin Ijasan

@adelehinijasan.bsky.social

Writer: Science fiction • Fantasy • African Speculative Fiction • Horror Novels: A Dying Giant in the Palm of Your Hand (2026) • This Body Once Held Fire (2027) Masobe Books. Thoughts on books, writing, fictional worlds! linktr.ee/adeijasan

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great fiction helps you see the world as it truly is. For instance, the day I read Kafka’s Before the law, is the last day I ever submitted a query to a literary agent. 😂

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Honestly, super hero stuff is its own genre and should not be bundled with science fiction, please.

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My writing process depends on what I’m writing. Science fiction starts with research which I thoroughly enjoy. Nigerian/African speculative fiction, though, comes fully formed, like an ancestral dream which I must urgently translate to words before it is taken away. #writingprocess

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So I love Dark Matter. Die hard Blake Crouch fan here since Wayward Pines. But I hope we all know that ‘observation’ in the double slit experiment—which has been combined with Everett’s Many Worlds interpretation as the foundational premise of this brilliant book/series—does not imply consciousness!

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Octavia Butler’s Dawn is still one of the best first contact novels I’ve ever read. The mystery builds and builds until you’re thrust, with Lilith, into this horrifying awareness. The Oankali. What a delicious story! I probably need to re-read the whole series again. Thank you, Octavia.#bookrecs

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Contributor copies in the mail ✨

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Excited to share that my short story ‘A Heap of Petrified Gods’ originally published in @lightspeedmagazine.com is on the 2026 Nommo Award Shortlist for Best Story! Grateful to everyone who nominated and congratulations to all my fellow finalists in all categories #nommoawards2026 #nommoawards

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 20/08/2026

This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Of All Who Dream" by Adelehin Ijasan www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/of-a...

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Of All Who Dream - Lightspeed Magazine

“God” is not the word I’d use. But it is the only one that suffices. There are all kinds of gods: the old and the new; the useful, the useless; the capricious and the dependable; the wrathful and the ...

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My latest short story, ‘Of All Who Dream‘ is available to read on Lightspeed today. Enjoy! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/of-a...

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Shots fired: "I named you Nitiri. All the other automatons addressed their chil- dren by their batch codes. You were notX Æ A-116 to me." From "Xhova," by @adelehinijasan.bsky.social, in Mothersound, the Sauútiverse Anthology #SFF #Afrofantastic #Africanfuturism

Text from a short story that reads:

No interruption at prophase. Daughter cells viable,

0.001 Neural crest cells migrating like swarm.
lens vesicle formed, fetal heart beat 150 beats/min.

0.01 Naevus, neck, 0.06um..

I named you Nitiri. All the other automatons addressed their chil-
dren by their batch codes. You were notX Æ A-116 to me. You were
Nitiri from the old Mahwé myth. Nitiri, who faced the frosted ice giant
on the melting ice caps of the North Pole and defeated him. Nitii
who was beauty, fertility, grace, and goddess of nature. A mortal who
sttained godhood by sheer will. I called you Nitiri, and when words

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Adelehin Ijasan @adelehinijasan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New to Bluesky! Yes, late to the party. Best time to announce that my short story ‘Of All Who Dream’ appears in @lightspeedmagazine.com this August! It’s a tale that tries to peer beneath the hood of what makes up consciousness and reality. Get epub: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/light...

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