Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell – review
Over the course of the next month or so, I’ll be relocating some reviews I did some years ago over at my old blog (The Bodhisattva) over to BSC. Some content that no longer makes sense (if it ever did!) and is no longer applicable, like links that don’t exist anymore, will be removed. Also, I now have the benefit of handing this to a second pair of eyes for editorial corrections–which I didn’t have or really care about before! This one is a look at Tobias Buckell’s debut, Crystal Rain.
Check it out after the jump…
Halo: Evolutions – Tobias Buckell, Karen Traviss, and Eric Nylund
Yesterday I received a press release from Tor announcing Halo: Evolutions, a collection of stories related to the gaming franchise that contains stories from writers like Karen Traviss, Tobias Buckell, and Eric Nylund. Traviss is basically behind the potential source material what every Star Wars fan better wish any future television of film is derived from–I love her work in that universe. Buckell is the author of some great recent SF with Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose, as well as Halo: The Cole Protocol. We’ve reviewed several of Buckell’s project and I interviewed him in 2008. Nylund is a veteran in the Halo universe penning several novels in that franchise and had his own Mortal Coils -a kick off to a series – published this year. We had Nylund on the BSC Beat for an interview as well.
Check out the release after the jump…
TOC Video: Where Do You Go With 40,000 Readers?
Earlier this year I was following Pablo Defendini’s (of Tor.com) and Tobias Buckell’s twitter feed as they were reporting their attendance at TOC (Tools of Change conference). Part of that was Where Do You Go With 40,000 Readers? and featured John Scalzi and the aforementioned Buckell, along with Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Tor.
Now, the 40-minute extravaganza is online. Check it after the jump . . .
Shared Worlds workshop
A day or two late getting this up, but this a press release about the Shared Worlds Creative Writing Camp. This year the camp’s instructors include people like Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer, Holly Black, and Tobias Buckell.
Get more info after the jump . . .
Book Review – Seeds of Change
Editor: John Joseph Adams Publisher: Prime Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 For the anthology Seeds of Change, editor John Joseph Adams asked a number of authors to write about paradigm shifts. Stories about the moment where the way of thinking about a subject changes radically, where old ideas are left behind and a [...]
Synergy – Your Prescription for Reading?
Alright true believers and truth speakers! Today, BookSpotCentral is kicking off the first of a new monthly feature we are calling Synergy. Basically, one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out and get talented outsiders who choose to become BSC extended [...]
News – The People’s Machine by Tobias Buckell released into the wild
Author Tobias Buckell has released his story, The People’s Machine, under a Creative Commons license. BSC has several Buckell related content including several reviews and an interview. Go check that out, and give it a read! A publisher, publicist, author, or artist and have news or announcements you think should be noted at BookSpot Central? [...]
Best Wishes to Tobias Buckell
On behalf of BookSpot Central I’d like to offer our best wishes for a speedy recovery to Tobias Buckell who is in the hospital where some heart complications are being looked into. Feel free to pass along your words of encouragement! A true ragamuffin, he’s blogging and looking for a X-Box! Get well soon Tobias [...]
On the Spot at BSC – Tobias Buckell interview
Crystal Rain really caught me at just the right time. When you are not only on these publicity lists but also a comic book guy you are exposed to covers on a daily basis but when I pulled the Crystal Rain galley out of the mail some 2 years ago the cover just spoke to [...]
Book Review – Sly Mongoose
Author: Tobias Buckell Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 Sly Mongoose is the third novel of Tobias Buckell. It is part of the same future history as its predecessors Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, but it is a self-contained story that can be read on its own. It has been [...]
Exclusive – Sly Mongoose by Tobias Buckell (three chapters)
Chapter Six The shell of the tiny, black vacuumball Pepper sat in hissed and cracked. Only an eggshell’s width lay between him and whatever lay outside. The ball had flown a million miles in three days, with Pepper curled up and festering inside by himself. In a device made only for emergency escapes from destroyed [...]
Book Review – Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Editor: John Joseph Adams Cover Artist: Daniel Kvasznicza Publisher: Night Shade Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date:2008 In the anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse John Joseph Adams collects 22 pieces of post-apocalyptic short fiction. It includes stories by big names such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card and Gene Wolfe as well [...]
