Hi!
I’m Tobias S. Buckell, a New York Times Bestselling and World Fantasy Award winning author of over a hundred short stories and some dozen novels [more about me]. I live in Bluffton, Ohio and teach undergraduate creative writing at Bluffton University as well as at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing.
My Writing
Crystal Rain is the first of my Xenowealth book series (Caribbean SF adventures). My latest novels are A Stranger in the Citadel and The Runes of Engagement. You can find out more about all my novels here.
Need a sample? You can get started reading free short stories of mine published online here. For the completists or researchers, my bibliography also lists all my stories or novels ever published.
To enquire about right/licensing/work
My fiction and media rights are represented by my agent: Hannah Bowman. You can contact me about potential projects, work, or opportunities by emailing tobias@tobiasbuckell.com or using the contact form.
Support and membership
You can help me post more stories, and write more, if you subscribe to my Patreon and unlock almost 50 stories and one free novel right now to read. More are coming. See the Table of member-only contents to find out what you can read and gain access to for supporting the site!
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My Blog
I also post about my work, what I am up to, and what I am thinking about online here at the blog:
- Six months of using a Svalboard keyboardAbout six months ago I blogged about my Christmas gift to myself: a Svalboard keyboard. It’s a very non-standard design, very science-fictional looking. I wrote about my evolution of ergonomic design for typing in this post about my keyboards…
- Novel.css: sample code for Obsidian to display nicely formatted standard book looksOne of the things I mentioned when talking about using Obsidian to write my novels was that I prefer looking at my writing in a book format: I like indents, and I prefer no spaces between my paragraphs unless…
- The Elephant’s Song – a new short story for Patreon supportersTo view this content, you must be a member of Tobias’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
- Further Adventures in Going Down a Rabbit Hole: Adopting an Alternative Keyboard LayoutTo view this content, you must be a member of Tobias’s Patreon Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
- An Overview of the State of Ergonomic KeyboardsI never gave much thought to my keyboard in my early 20s. It just came with the computer I purchased. If one died, I would go out and buy a $20 keyboard at the store, more often than not,…
- Introducing Glyph: a keyboard only editing systemSo here’s a project that I’ve been working on for the last 10 years that I’m going to just put out there for others to see what they think, or maybe use. I find editing large amounts of text…
- Some reviews for my short story “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.”The July/August issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine has a short story in of mine called “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.” As some of the reviews below point out, it’s one of my more philosophical pieces, less…
- Caribbean Futurism and Beyond Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative FictionDuring the pandemic I got an email from Jarrel De Matas inviting me to do an interview about Caribbean futurism and the books and stories I’d written. Jarrel has collected a series of interviews and fleshed them out with…