Archive for the 'My Writing: Announcements' Category
Halo: The Cole Protocol (and welcome to all you new readers)
June 16th 2008 at 4:36 pm
The news is out, if you visit Bungie’s homepage you’ll find the following in a recent article:
Halo: The Cole Protocol will be the sixth novel set in the Halo Universe. Tobias S. Buckell, author of Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin will pen the novel, which reveals the location of the Spartan Gray Team and “takes readers […]
Short story Manumission available at Baen’s Universe
April 3rd 2008 at 1:41 pm
The online magazine Baen’s Universe has my short story Manumission featured this month. This story has been years in waiting to be published, but is one of my favorites.
In 2005 I read it aloud to a group of people who came to a reading at Confluence, an SF/F convention in Pittsburgh. Last year at Confluence […]
Ragamuffin a finalist for the Prometheus Award
March 19th 2008 at 1:21 pm
I’m totally pleased to see that my second novel Ragamuffin has received another incredible and awesome nomination for an award.
From their site:
The Prometheus Award “honors outstanding sf/f that explores the possibilities of a free future, champions human rights, dramatizes the perennial conflict between individuals and coercive governments, or critiques the tragic consequences of abuse […]
Ragamuffin a Nebula Finalist! Woot!
February 22nd 2008 at 1:54 pm
Last night I passed out sick, I woke up very late to a spate of messages pointing out that Ragamuffin had made the final Nebula ballot.
Holy freaking cow! How cool is that?
I’ll tell you how cool: ginormously freaking adrenalizingly cool!
I’ve been replying to emails via my iPhone, as I had to wake up, shower, and […]
Short story sale: Mitigation to Fast Forward 2
February 3rd 2008 at 1:21 am
I just got an email from Lou Anders saying he’d be accepting the short story Karl Schroeder and I wrote called ‘Mitigation.’
It will be out in the anthology Fast Forward 2 from Pyr sometime in Fall 2008.
The story is an arctic adventure story set in the 8th ocean, that being the one in the process […]
Short story sale: Resistance to Seeds of Change
January 30th 2008 at 1:54 am
Went to bed early and tired and the storms here in the mid-West woke me up just before 2am. Whereupon I checked my email and found that my short story about computer-modeled benevolent dictatorships “Resistance” sold to the anthology Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams. The anthology should be out in early summer […]
Ragamuffin: read the first third of my second novel for free!
July 2nd 2007 at 5:35 pm
I fell behind in posting Ragamuffin chapters while life got busy, so here they all are to catch you up. The first 1/3 of Ragamuffin, the first 22 chapters.
Interested in helping spread the word? Please post a link to www.tobiasbuckell.com/ragamuffin pointing out there’s a whole 1/3 of the novel available in PDF, RTF text, or […]
Books for reviewers
June 28th 2007 at 2:30 pm
If you are interested in reviewing my books, or helping spread the word, I would love to get your information! I have a bunch of copies of Crystal Rain, and a bunch of copies of Ragamuffin here that are set aside for people.
If you haven’t reviewed or read Crystal Rain, and you have a blog, […]
Baen’s Universe buys my short story ‘Manumission’
June 20th 2007 at 1:00 pm
Baen’s Universe just purchased my short story ‘Manumission’ for their site.
Manumission is a short story that follows up on my story The Fish Merchant, originally published in Science Fiction Age in 2000, which has long been a reader favorite.
It is tentatively scheduled for April 2008, and I’m very pleased to see this favorite story of […]
Crystal Rain: first third available in PDF, RTF, and HTML
June 1st 2007 at 2:28 pm
With thanks to Ryan Freebern, Crystal Rain is now up on the site in RTF and HTML format.
Crystal Rain: First 1/3 (3 megabytes) [PDF file]
Crystal Rain: First 1/3 [RTF file]
Crystal Rain: First 1/3 [HTM file]
Crystal Rain has been out in Hardcover since February 2006. It just was rereleased in the cheaper Paperback at […]
