Archive for September, 2008
Sly Mongoose Chapter Four
September 29th 2008 at 2:32 pm
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
When Ollin returned two days later he snagged Timas’s arm and pulled him along through the courtyard away from the watered down pulque.
Ollin didn’t tower over Timas, but his bulk and presence could intimidate.
Ollin made him feel like a child again. Ollin’s wrinkled tunic and unkempt hair were the only signs […]
Genreville interview
September 29th 2008 at 12:59 pm
Over at Genreville Rose Fox interviews me about Sly Mongoose:
Genreville: Where did the idea behind Sly Mongoose come from, and what attracted you to that idea?
Tobias S. Buckell: I mentioned in the afterword that I was quite inspired by a presentation about Venus by Geoff Landis where he mentioned that high up in Venus you’re […]
ConText
September 29th 2008 at 12:07 am
I got back later this evening from the small Columbus area SF/F convention Context after a truly fun drive back from Columbus where I let the Celica open a bit thanks to lots of people driving just under the speed limit (you see, they needed passed).
Context was great fun, I spoke about effective blogging (and […]
Metatropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
September 26th 2008 at 10:45 am
Audible’s Steve Feldberg just passed on permission to blog the cover of the upcoming Audible.com project that John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Jay Lake and I wrote, and I think it looks pretty damn awesome:
Details coming over the next week will include cool bits of information like who the narrators are for the various […]
Sly Mongoose: Chapter Three
September 26th 2008 at 6:40 am
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
The elevator slammed down to a slower speed on the final approach to Yatapek’s city docks. Timas waited as the massive lower airlocks engulfed the small elevator and sealed themselves shut. Through the ruined portholes the lower curve of the city dominated the sky above, and in the distant gloom clusters of […]
China’s latest space mission (hasn’t yet launched)
September 25th 2008 at 12:06 pm
In the middle of the financial madness, and just after the Olympic madness, China caps things off by sending 3 Taikanauts to space. They plan on having a spacewalk this weekend.
update: and as someone on Twitter noted, this article was a pre written piece of copy that a national Chinese news website accidentally released early.
For […]
Sly Mongoose Chapter Two
September 25th 2008 at 8:17 am
Chapter One
Chapter Two
The day Timas and his friend Cen saw the alien everything changed.
Outside the spherical floating city of Yatapek, a hundred thousand feet over the ground, the winds had died. The forecast from the Aeolian cities, with their satellites and computers, gave Yatapek a seven-hour window. The city could anchor over the ground safely.
“Timas, […]
Sly Mongoose: now with 100% more audio goodness
September 25th 2008 at 6:32 am
Sly Mongoose is on sale via Audible.com for a promo price of $12.57 right now.
Also available via iTunes Store if you just type my name in, which is pretty cool.
The reading is by Jonathan Davis:
Jonathan Davis, a young New York actor, cut his (audiobook) teeth on the dynamic storytelling of science fiction audio programs, but […]
Shipbreaker
September 23rd 2008 at 3:53 pm
Paolo and I have been geeking out over wild sailing technologies for a while, and at the last Blue Heaven workshop he had a novel that I just, freaking, adored, because it was all about shipbreaking and wild alternate post-fuel sailing technology (which I’m featuring heavily in Duppy Conqueror due to some of those conversations, […]
