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Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in
Grenada and spent time in the British and
US Virgin Islands
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, which influence much of his work. His novels and almost one hundred stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. His work has been nominated for awards like the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. His 2008 novel, ''
Halo: The Cole Protocol'', made
''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. He currently lives in
Bluffton, Ohio
Bluffton, originally known as Shannon, is a village in Allen and Hancock counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 4,125 at the 2010 census. Bluffton is home to Bluffton University, a four-year educational institution affiliated w ...
, where he works as an instructor at the
Stonecoast MFA in the Creative Writing program.
Biography
Buckell was born in 1979 in
Grenada in the
Caribbean, where he was raised on a boat. In 1999, he attended
Clarion Workshop. Not long after that, he made his first sale, "Fish Merchant", to
Scott Edelman
Scott Edelman (; born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.
Career
In the 1970s, he worked in American comic books, in particular writing horror comics for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. For Marvel he ...
at ''Science Fiction Age''. The story appeared in the March, 2000 issue. About the time of the sale, his story "In Orbite Medievali" won a quarterly contest for the
Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future (WOTF) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s. A sister contest, Illustrators of the Future, presents awards for science fiction art. Hubbard characterized ...
. Since then his stories have appeared in a variety of places, including the magazines ''
Analog
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Computing and electronics
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'' and ''
Nature
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'', and the anthologies ''New Voices in Science Fiction'', ''Men Writing Science Fiction As Women'', and ''
So Long Been Dreaming
''So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy'' (2004) is an anthology of short stories by African, Asian, South Asian, and Indigenous authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour,''So Long Been Dreaming'' cov ...
''. Buckell has both
ADHD and dyslexia.
His first novel, ''
Crystal Rain'', was published in February 2006 by
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
. His second novel, ''
Ragamuffin
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Film
* ''The Ragamuffin'', a 1916 American silent film by William C. deMille
* ''Ragamuffin'', a 2014 film directed by David Schultz about Rich Mullins
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'' was published in 2007, and was nominated for the illustrious
Nebula award for that year. ''
Sly Mongoose'', his third novel, was published in August 2008. His first short story collection, ''Tides from the New Worlds'', was published as a signed limited edition hardcover by Wyrm Publishing in April 2009.
On June 16, 2008, Buckell was announced as the author for the sixth novel in the
Halo
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* Halo (optical phenomenon)
* Halo (religious iconography), a ring of light around the image of a head
HALO, halo, halos or haloes may also refer to:
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* ''Halo'' (franch ...
book series titled ''
Halo: The Cole Protocol'', named after military procedures made to prevent the Covenant from obtaining crucial information, such as the location of Earth. The novel was published in November 2008. In December, the novel debuted at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction. He also wrote the collaborative short story collection ''
Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe'' along with
Karen Traviss
Karen Traviss is a science fiction author from Wiltshire, England. She is the author of the ''Wess'Har'' series, and has written tie-in material based on ''Star Wars'', ''Gears of War'', ''Halo (series), Halo'', ''G.I. Joe'' and the newest ''Noma ...
,
Eric Nylund
Eric S. Nylund (born November 12, 1964) is an American novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a ...
and many other authors, which was released in November 2009.
His latest novel, ''The Stranger the in Citadel,'' was released on Audible Originals in May 2021.
He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife and two daughters, where he teaches Creative Writing at Bluffton University and is also an instructor at the
Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program.
Works
Xenowealth series
* ''
Crystal Rain'' (2006)
* ''
Ragamuffin
Ragamuffin or Raggamuffin may refer to:
Film
* ''The Ragamuffin'', a 1916 American silent film by William C. deMille
* ''Ragamuffin'', a 2014 film directed by David Schultz about Rich Mullins
Music
* Raggamuffin music, or ragga, a reggae and danc ...
'' (2007)
* ''
Sly Mongoose'' (2008)
* ''Apocalypse Ocean'' (2012)
*''Xenowealth: A Collection'' (2016)
Halo novelizations
* ''
Halo: The Cole Protocol'' (2008)
* ''Halo: Envoy'' (2017)
Stand-alone novels
* ''Arctic Rising'' (2012)
* ''Hurricane Fever'' (2014)
Tobias Buckell - Hurricane Fever cover art and release date reveal
, at ''Upcoming4.me''; published November 2, 2013; retrieved November 4, 2013
* ''The Trove'' (2018)
*''The Tangled Lands,'' co-authored with Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo Award, Hugo, Nebula Award, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, John W. Campbell, Compton Cr ...
(2018)
*''The Stranger in the Citadel'' (2021)
Novellas
* ''Stochasticity'' (2008)
*''Byways – METAtropolis: Cascadia'' (2010)
*''The Executioness'' (2011)
*''Tensegrity – METAtropolis: Greenspace'' (2013)
Collections
* ''Tides from the New Worlds'' (2009)
* ''Nascence'' (2011)
* ''Mitigated Futures'' (2012)
*''It’s All Just a Draft'' (2019)
*''Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories (2021)''
As editor
*''Diverse Energies'', co-edited with Joe Monti (2012)
*''The Stories We Tell: Bermuda Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror'' (2017)
*''Reclaim, Restore, Return: Futurist Tales from the Caribbean'', co-edited with Karen Lord
Karen Lord (born 22 May 1968) is a Barbadian people, Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, ''Redemption in Indigo'' (2010), retells the story "Ansige Karamba the Glutton" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, ''The B ...
(2020)
Short stories
* "Waiting For The Zephyr" in ''Jackhammer'' (June, 1999)
*"In Orbite Medievali" – ''Writers of The Future'' (September ’00):
*"Spurn Babylon" – ''Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root'' (October ’00)
*"Steam" – ''Would That It Were'' (January 2001)
*"All Her Children Fought" – ''Speculon'' (March 2001)
*"Trinkets" – ''The Book of All Flesh (''October 2001)
*"A Green Thumb" – ''Analog'' (July/August 2002)
*"Kisses" - ''Vestal Review'' (July 2002)
*"Nord’s Gambit" – ''switch.blade'' (July 2002)
*"The Shackles of Freedom" (with Mike Resnick) – ''With A Little Help From My Friends'' (Aug. 2002)
*"Tides" – ''Ideomancer Unbound'' (December 2002)
*"Death’s Dreadlocks" – ''Mojo: Conjure Stories'' (April 2003)
*"Smooth Talking" – ''Marsdust'' (Oct. 2003)
*"In The Heart of Kalikuata" – ''Men Writing SF As Women'' (November, 2003)
*"Four Eyes" – ''New Voices in Science Fiction'' (December 2003)
*"Her" – ''Fortean Bureau'' (January 2004)
*"Necahual" – ''So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantas''y (May 2004)
*"Aerophilia" – ''All Star Zeppelin Stories'' (Sep. 2004)
*"Anakoinosis" – ''I Alien'' (April 2005)
*"Toy Planes" – ''Nature Magazine'' (Oct 14th, 2005)
*" Shoah Sry" (with Ilsa J. Bick) – ''Subterranean Magazine'' (Spring 2006)
*"The Silver Streak" – ''Space Cadets'' (Aug. 2006)
*"The Last Twilight" – ''Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future'' (Aug. 2006)
*"The Duel" – ''Electric Velocipede #11'' (Nov. 2006)
*"Io, Robot" – ''Visual Journeys: a tribute to space art'' (summer 2007)
*"Manumission" – ''Baen’s Universe'' (April, 2008)
*"The People’s Machine" – ''Sideways in Crime'' (Summer, 2008)
*"Resistance" – ''Seeds of Change'' (Summer, 2008)
*"Mitigation" (w/ Karl Schroeder) – ''Fast Forward 2'' (Fall, 2008)
*"Something in The Rock" – ''Tides From The New Worlds'' (March, 2009)
*"Placa Del Fuego" – ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (July, 2009)
*"Dirt" – ''HALO: Evolutions'' (November, 2009)
*"A Jar of Goodwill" – ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (May, 2010)
*"On The Eve of the Fall of Habesh" – ''Speculative Horizons'' (December, 2010)
*T"he Fall of Alacan" – ''Subterranean Magazine'' (Spring 2011)
*"The Universe Reef"– ''Nature Magazine'' (May, 2011)
*"Love Comes To Abyssal City" – ''Hot And Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance'' (June, 2011)
*"Mirror, Mirror" – ''Subterranean Magazine'' (Special YA edition, Summer 2011)
*"Lonely Islands" – ''MIT Technology Review'' (Nov. 2011, TR:SF edition)
*"A Militant Peace" (w/ David Klecha) – ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (November, 2011)
*"A Tinker of Warhoon" – ''Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom'' (Spring, 2012)
*"Press Enter to Execute" – ''Fireside Magazine #1'' (Spring, 2012)
*"Jungle Walkers" (w/ David Klecha) – ''Armored'' (March, 2012)
*"A Game of Rats and Dragon" – ''Mitigated Futures'' (June, 2012)
*"The Rainy Season" – ''Mitigated Futures'' (August, 2012)
*"The Found Girl" (w/ David Klecha) – ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (September, 2012)
*"The Seafarer" – ''Subterranean Magazine'' (Spring, 2013)
*"The Rydr Express" – ''The New Hero II'' (May, 2013)
*"A Pressure of Shadows" – ''Schemers'' (November, 2013)
*"System Reset" – ''The End is Nigh'' (March, 2014)
*"Ambassador to the Dinosaurs" – ''The Book of Silverberg'' (April, 2014)
*"Sundown" – ''Dead Man’s Hand'' (May, 2014)
*"Help Fund Taphognosis Industries" – ''Help Fund My Robot Army'' (July, 2014)
*"A Cold Heart" – ''Upgraded'' (July, 2014)
*"Rules of Enchantment" (w/ David Klecha) – ''Operation Arcana'' (Apr. 2015)
*"Pale Blue Memories" in ''Old Venus
''Old Venus'' is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, that was published on March 3, 2015. All of the stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pre-space probe pulp magazin ...
'' (anthology) (2015)
*"Ratcatcher" – ''Xenowealth: A Collection'' (Dec. 2015)
* "Oasis" in ''Halo: Fractures'' (anthology) (2016)
*"The Fish Merchant -Science Fiction Age" in ''Clarkesworld Magazine
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...
'' (2016)
*"Oasis" – ''Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon'' (Sep. 2016)
*"The Mighty Slinger" (w/ Karen Lord) – ''Bridging Infinity'' (Nov. 2016)
*"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" – ''Cosmic Powers'' (Apr. 2017)
*"Shoggoths in Traffic" – ''Lightspeed Magazine'' (Sep. 2017)
*"High Awareness (with David Brin) – ''Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere'' (Sep. 2017)
*"A World to Die For" – ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (January, 2018)
*"Sunset" – ''Lightspeed Magazine'' (May, 2018)
*"A Different Kind of Place" – ''Apex Magazine'' (Jun. 2018)
*"The Blindfold" in ''A People’s Future of the United States'' (Feb., 2019)
*"The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" in ''New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color'' (anthology) (March, 2019)
*"Apocalypse Considered Through a Helix of Semiprecious Foods and Recipes" in T''he Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (May/June, 2019)
*"N-Coin" in ''Apex Magazine'' (May, 2019)
*"Through Sparks in Morning’s Dawn" in ''Wastelands: The New Apocalypse'' (anthology) (2019)
*"By the Warmth of Her Calculus" in ''Mission Critical'' (2019)
*"Zombie Capitalism" in ''Motherboard Magazine'' (March, 2020)
*Scar Tissue in ''Slate Magazine'' (May, 2020)
*"Idle Hands" in ''The Dystopia Triptych #1: Ignorance is Strength'' (anthology) (2020)
*"The Fruits of Their Labor" in T''he Dystopia Triptych #2: Burn the Ashes'' (anthology) (2020)
*"The Machine Votes" in ''The Dystopia Triptych #3: Or Else the Light'' (anthology) (2020)
*"The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity" in ''Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology'' (2020)
*"Category Six:" in ''Reclaim, Restore, Return: Futurist Tales from the Caribbean'' (anthology) (2020)
References
External links
*
*
Interview with Tobias S. Buckell
a
SFFWorld.com
Interview on wotmania.com
Interview on the SciFiDimensions Podcast
Interview
at Clarkesworld Magazine
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...
Issue 30, March 2009
Arctic Rising review
at Upcoming4.me
The Tobias Buckell Papers, 1994- 2009
at Northern Illinois University Libraries
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1979 births
Living people
Grenadian male writers
People from Bluffton, Ohio
Grenadian emigrants to the United States
Writers from Ohio
Grenadian science fiction writers
Grenadian novelists
Grenadian short story writers
United States Virgin Islands writers
Male novelists
Male short story writers
20th-century short story writers
21st-century novelists
21st-century short story writers
20th-century male writers
21st-century male writers