Archive for the 'My Writing: My Books: Ragamuffin: Reviews' Category
Reviews central
August 1st 2008 at 4:33 pm
I’ve been sitting on a bunch of reviews forwarded to me of my work, due to being out and about I’ve not gotten around to blogging them, so just to make sure I don’t forget any of them, here they are:
Pllogan liked Sly Mongoose.
John Markley, of the blog Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic (great title), […]
Series Business on all three novels at Publishers Weekly
August 1st 2008 at 1:33 pm
Publishers Weekly’s Rose Fox has a new column up on her Genreville blog, called Series Business, and is taking a look at how Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose work as a series:
I very much enjoyed reading these and would recommend them to anyone who enjoys space opera but wants to get away from some […]
Other announcements, plus a Crystal Rain review!
July 11th 2008 at 1:05 am
So, for those of new to my blog, I’m usually pretty boring. My blogging theory is that I putter around, pointing out cool things that make me happy and talking about my work and what’s on my mind and so forth.
So some updates, I passed the 10% mark of the novel H:TCP in solid form, […]
LJ user Chang3002, and author Jim Hines review Ragamuffin
July 4th 2008 at 6:42 am
Two more reviews to pimp. The first is Chang3002 who reviewed Ragamuffin (along with fellow Ohio SF writer Paul Melko’s book Singularity’s Ring) on his blog:
Buckell’s pulled together several of my favorite things in the world: aliens, strong female characters, rastafari in space and violence against our alien oppressor’s. Quite an awesome combination. […]
A bunch ‘o reviews
June 24th 2008 at 7:09 am
A number of reviews of my books have popped up:
Mentat Jack reviews Crystal Rain:
Buckell has a unique voice and his Caribbean heritage shines through, in the language and the nautical realism. This was a refreshing and thought provoking read and I’d highly recommend it. I ordered a copy of Ragamuffin hours after finishing Crystal Rain. […]
A Dribble of Ink reviews Ragamuffin
June 16th 2008 at 7:08 am
Aidan Moher takes a look at Ragamuffin for his blog:
Ragamuffin, though shorter than Crystal Rain, sees the scope of Buckell’s storytelling expand immensely. Where the first novel was more of an adventure with Science Fiction elements, Ragamuffin is a full blown Space Opera. Various alien races inhabit the 48 planets, under the rule of the […]
PanCrit.org review of Ragamuffin
June 6th 2008 at 1:15 pm
Blogger Chris Hibbert takes a look at Ragamuffin in regards to it being up for the Prometheus Award:
Tobias Buckell’s Ragamuffin is a finalist for the Prometheus award. Buckell describes it as “Caribbean space opera”, and it definitely has a Caribbean feel to it. In this story, humans are one of several interstellar-faring species dominated by […]
King of the Nerds reviews Ragamuffin
May 20th 2008 at 12:55 pm
A new review of Ragamuffin popped up here at the blog King of the Nerds, who penned:
Regardless this wasn’t enough to stop me reading and the last 75 to 100 pages were more than enough to make up for any chaff along the way. In many ways the final scenes reminded a bit of […]
Shaun Duke review of Ragamuffin
May 14th 2008 at 6:36 am
A new, and rather nice, Amazon.com review of Ragamuffin includes this:
Tobias is what I would call expert in making you believe that all is well, and then turning it all upside down on you. He makes sure you trust the words of a character and then rips that trust right out from under you so […]
Tillabooks reviews Ragamuffin
May 7th 2008 at 1:16 pm
Online blogger Tillabooks just read Ragamuffin and reviews it:
When I picked this book up off my local library’s new books shelf, and even when I started reading it, I had no idea that it was a sequel to another book, Crystal Rain, which I reviewed back on March 18 of this year. I guess I […]
