Tobias S. Buckell

I mention that I teach graduage school at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Writing program occasionally. I started in 2019, just before the pandemic. Since I have been off social media a lot, and this blog was down for a long time, I’ve not been bigging up my students when they accomplish…

This article about the state of beaming power down from orbit using microwave or laser always leaves me going “and what will other countries think about having a giant heat ray you can point at anywhere on earth think about this?” The amount of treaty-making will make a world-wide carbon cap an easier project. Someone…

What I love about this most is the voice over. 99 times out of 100 it’s a mistake, but Skarsgard hits the disinterested, a little passive-aggressive, tone of Murderbot so well. The trailer feels like the book feels in my head, vibe-wise, so I’m looking forward to this as I love the books.

The 2025 Hugo nominees have been announced here. This is one of the ‘big 3’ awards in SF/F (though there are many more) voted on by fans who attend the location-shifting event known as Worldcon. Of the 6 novels nominated I’ve read 3, so I have some new titles to check out (until I got…

My novel “The Island in the Sky” has the first 5 chapters available to Patreon subscribers of the site by going to the novel’s table of contents. Get a taste, see if you like it. I know I should put up some graphics, a summary, and so on, but, the first five chapters are right…

Ever wanted to study writing with me? I’ll be a guest writer with some amazing guests at the Wayward Wormhole workshop that Cat Rambo and Janet Smith organize (I taught at the Barcelona event a while back, and it was amazing! Click the picture to see more info.

The membership page now has links to all 45 short stories that are here on the site, and the novel “The Island in the Sky” has had all 39 chapters moved over. The first 5 are free for anyone to read, then it goes behind the paywall. I will eventually look at a separate log-in…

This story about the best man speech at a Mario-themed wedding was the funniest thing I’ve read all day: He stayed in character the whole time. Never broke or laughed once. As I said, about 10 percent of the people at the wedding were crying-laughing. These were comedians who have gone on to run television…

Got nailed by some stomach bug last night. Miserable ride, but got a little bit of a book read that’s been on the list while suffering. Taking today easy and slow, called off work. Fluids and toast kinda day. So it goes… I need to log in and report my sick days into a system…

I’m still slowly bringing Patreon content over here as I have the time and energy. Today I did a big push to get 30 of the 44 stories moved over and linked via the member-supported projects table of contents page. Once the stories are moved over, I’ll tackle the articles, as I’m thinking also of…