Tobias' Books

  • Arctic Rising

    Global warming has transformed the Earth. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the unlocked resources.

    Anika Duncan is an airship pilot about to get caught up in a plot to terraform Earth itself, to save it from itself…

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  • Nascence

    Tobias S. Buckell has published 45 short stories. To sell those 45 he wrote over 100 short stories that failed. In Nascence, he presents 17 of those failed stories and what he learned from those failures.

    Nascence is a look the beginnings of Buckell’s fictional worlds and the stories he was trying to tell at the very start.

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  • Halo: The Cole Protocol

    A novel set in the hit video game universe of Halo: Jacob Keyes joins the bridge crew of a new ship on a dangerous mission behind Covenant lines, where humans continue to survive in the ruins, and even collaborate with members of the Covenant. But time is running out, and Keyes will have to make tough decisions about what it means to follow orders.

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  • Tides From The New Worlds

    My short story collection gathers most of the stories from various magazines and anthologies together for the first time.

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  • Sly Mongoose

    Chilo: a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Timas lives in one of the domed cities 100,000 feet above the surface where the temperature and pressure is normal. But to make a living Timas is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.

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  • Ragamuffin

    Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out humanity once and for all.

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  • Crystal Rain

    Long ago the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a “worms hole” in the sky, looking for a new world to call their own. But that was many generations ago, and what was once known has long been lost. Steamboats and gas-filled blimps now traverse the planet, where people once looked up to see great silver cities in the sky.

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About

Tobias Buckell

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Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born New York Times Bestselling author. His work has been translated into 15 different languages. He has published some 50 short stories in various magazines and anthologies, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Prometheus, and Campbell awards. Longer bio | The Books & Stories.

Latest Blog Posts

Halo Helljumper Series based on my short story Dirt Nearly Ready To Drop

January 26th 2012 | Comments Off

So the Halo Helljumper webisode series is going to go live sometime today, and the miniseries is basically built around my novella Dirt from Halo: Evolutions. As you can imagine I can’t wait to see the first episode online. But as the last message on Facebook, they’re still uploading the first episode to the video [...]

Private space aims for around the moon trip

January 25th 2012 | Comments Off

I’ve linked this before, but BoingBoing has a link to a more detailed description of the $150 million per ticket Space Adventures ride to the moon and back.

Epic Confusion was epic

January 23rd 2012 | Comments Off

This weekend I attended Confusion, an SF/F convention where I got to hang out with an insane number of cool people. I got the twins a room of their own, and they were very impressed. Thalia climbed right into her hotel bed (I watch big TV, dad?). I spent a great deal of time hanging [...]