About Tobias S. Buckell
Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling and World Fantasy Award-winning author born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work.
His novels and over seventy stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. His work has been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author.
He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife and twin daughters. He’s an instructor at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. For more, visit his Press Kit. To see an exhaustive list of what he’s published, visit the bibliography page.
Tobias Buckell’s fiction and media rights are represented by his agent: Hannah Bowman.
The Latest:
A tale of family bonds, royal power, and the truth that threatens it all, from World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell.
You shall not suffer a librarian to live...
[Tobias is]. . . a writer to shelve there with .J. Cherryh, Alastair Reynolds, Dan Simmons and those few other writers who have managed to adopt the advantages of mainstream literature without giving up the skilled storytelling and sense of wonder of old style SF.
— Critical Mass
Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories
The latest collection from Tobias S. Buckell [launches November, 2021]
Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you’ll find inhabitants of a small town who won’t vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship for a return to swords and blood, and many more tales of speculative fiction.
Keep up with current events, discover new books, and learn more about what I’m up to! Support my writing and get a chance to connect with me in comments to chat about what’s going on in the SFF world. Patrons will enjoy receiving short stories, attending monthly writing dates over Zoom, and more. Become a patron today.
How to get started reading my books:
Start the space adventures of the Xenowealth series with the first book! On a far away world lost to earth, ancient alien powers war with descendants of the Caribbean peoples who escaped there.
Read a near future thriller: For Anika Duncan, a pilot in a future transformed by global warming, the world is about to get a little bit hotter. This is the first book in my eco thriller duo of novels, followed by Hurricane Fever.
Read a stand-alone fantasy novel in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist. Cowritten with Paolo Bacigalupi.
Read a new stand-alone novel: Every day Jane Hawkins watches starships land from far-off places, bound for adventure. Villem Osteonides, more machine than man, has crewed aboard those ships, and he has a secret that will change Jane’s life forever.
Violent, poetic and compulsively readable.”
-Maclean’s (Canada)
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Read the Latest Monthly Patreon Story:
Mr. Skin’s Heart: March’s Patreon Short Story (read it for as little as $1)
Two of Manny’s bodyguards kicked the door to my shitty, off-the-strip motel room door right off its hinges. I was waiting for them by the peeling door jamb with a taser.
When All Was Brillig: February’s Patreon Short Story (read it for as little as $1)
The first time I threw myself at the claws of the reaper everyone assumed it was a mistake. Surely, said the reapermaster, she must have stumbled into its track. Though, we’d all been taught since we could walk to avoid the great creatures.
The Scar That Stains Red the Gulch: January’s Patreon Short Story (read it for as little as $1)
I came to town, as begged by telegraph, as speedily as I could to see about the problem of the women who’d all thrown themselves to death off Rushtown Gulch.
Latest Blog Posts:
The Tentacled Monster Here is Racism: Lovecraft Country Episode 1
HBO PR reached out to me about seeing Lovecraft Country, first episode dropping tonight. As a mixed race SF author I have a complicated relationship with Lovecraft, but the trailers intrigued. Mostly Black cast? Black writer-producer? Yes please! Check Lovecraft Country out not just because HBO gave me a goody …
This is a test of integrating Ulysses and WordPress.
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My First Month of Locking Down in a Small Town
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I Was the Author Guest of Honor at Capricon 40!
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This is too honest by far, and I wonder if it is perhaps unhelpful for me to talk openly about. Vulnerable is hard. But, I would have loved to have read this years ago, so let’s do this: I want to talk about how much I write, and my current …
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