I liked it a lot. It's a collection of sixteen stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves. Wole Talabi is a gifted storyteller with clever ideas and the skills to translate them into pages with a flair. Highly recommended.

CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS takes you from near future Nigeria, to Mars, through the deep folds of your own mind where you don't want to go. His stories are tight and pack a lot of questions with a light-handed wry realism that doesn't lose the message for the world, and the story for the message. The Nebula-nominated "Dream of Electric Mothers" is a clear favourite, and I also loved "Ganger", a story about the difference between surviving, adapting, and thriving; and "Nigerian Dreams". Excellent collection, and a powerful follow-up to Talabi's SHIGIDI.

I go into every book wanting to like it. I desperately search for positive things about every book or short story collection, but nothing here clicked for me.

There was a range of stories, some even written in different formats than your standard story, which was very interesting.

There was only one story which piqued my interest, Gamma, for a similar title to Love in the time of Cholera. It was an interesting concept, but I feel poorly executed.

What we have here are some interesting concepts, I liked how Talabi dived into robots in Ganger. Talabi explores robots performing functions that are "helpful" i.e smashing down a wall to save a life. It reminds me of real life, the police may break down a door to save a life; but they do not pay for a new door. Robots, machines, computers, are logic machines, they perform there tasks without deviation.

However, it was the writing I did not take to. One of my favourite quotes about writing is, from Coleridge, "Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium." The words and sentences constantly drew attention to themselves and therefore threw me out of the immersion. Combine that with exposition and first person, I just did not find anything to my taste.