Will I love Caged Ocean Dub?

Dare Segun Falowo is an unusual storyteller, writing with levity and a sense of humour, even for sombre topics.

Caged Ocean Dub is an inventively-structured collection of short stories tiered with African hue. It blends sudden fiction and novelette-length stories that are all dark and spellbinding in a dream-like lure that keeps the reader enthralled. For lovers of culturally-tinted speculative fiction. 

This collection by the gifted Nigerian author who excels at evoking a haunting sense of beauty with words, is sure to delight anyone that enjoys throwing themselves off a literary cliff to see words and images fly by like many-splendored birds.

These are stories that will transport you to changed versions of our world with exquisite prose. Familiar and not. Dark and beautiful and occasionally terrifying they run the gamut from dark fantasy to science fiction to cosmic horror. Often set in Nigeria and using, Yoruba mythology, folklore, and legends as jumping-off points this is an immersive and strange book… show more.

Caged Ocean Dub is an inventive and tiered book with fascinating and imaginative African-hued stories.

It comes in a blend of flash fiction, short stories, even a novelette, and it crosses genre in a scrumptious way that deliciously attacks your attention. This book is pregnant with ache, harmony, song, ritual and superstition—climatic and hypnotic start to finish. Reading it is almost like immersion in a dream sequence.