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Locus reviews Xenowealth: A Collection

Locus Magazine has two reviews of Xenowealth: A Collection in the March issue.

The first review is by Karen Burnham:

Buckell has a very important goal: to tip the tables and ask us to empathize with the colonized instead of the colonizer. To be the ones with our lives disrupted, whether by alien invasion or mercenary violence. And yet the political and cultural subtext of these stories never overwhelms their primary goal: to be stories with plenty of action, intrigue, and characters to care...

Caribbean Beat Magazine interviews Nalo Hopkinson, RSA Garcia, Karen Lord, and me!

Caribbean Beat Magazine is the in-flight magazine of Caribbean Airlines, and they recently did profiles of me, Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Lord and RSA Garcia and our writing:

How is speculative fiction specifically relevant to the Caribbean?

We have to have a literature that envisions ourselves in the future. If we don’t have that, then we force ourselves to live only in the present. There’s nothing wrong with the present, but we have to have something we’re working towards, or that we’re warning...

Publishers Weekly review of Xenowealth: A Collection

Publishers Weekly reviewed Xenowealth: A Collection and said nice things:

Fans curious about the background of Buckell’s Xenowealth tetralogy (lastly The Apocalypse Ocean) have crowdfunded this collection of nine glimpses into an exciting future. First, technologically superior aliens “pacified” Earth and brought it into the Benevolent Satrapy, a tightly controlled empire of 48 worlds. Then, rebels whom the aliens had scattered through the stars established the totalitarian League and plotted...

Why I did Xenowealth: A Collection as a Kickstarter

Clay Kallam has nice things to say about the collection, and recommends reading the Xenowealth collection in the first regular review of Xenowealth: A Collection.

He does lead off with this:

The brave new world of publishing can affect even the successful, including Tobias Buckell, author of “Xenowealth” and “Arctic Rising” books, who now must resort to crowdfunding to get all of his works into print.

(Via Worlds Beyond: Tobias Buckell revisits his ‘Xenowealth’ world with a new collection of...

UCR Today: Alternative Futurisms Series Continues

Authors Daniel José Older and Walter Mosley will speak on Wednesday, Feb. 3, followed on March 3 by a panel of award-winning authors discussing the expectations of science fiction and fantasy produced by Caribbean writers.

(Via UCR Today: Alternative Futurisms Series Continues.)

I can’t wait to be in California for this.

Why I Log

I don’t think I’m alone in this experience. Others have tried a similar diet, though perhaps for other reasons. Advocating for one particular weight-loss diet isn’t my point. My message is this: your weight is in large measure about your psychology. It’s about the hunger mood. Obesity is a crippling social problem, but to our detriment the research has almost uniformly ignored this aspect of the situation. Consider this to be a call to science to focus a great deal more on the psychology of...

Xenowealth: A Collection available today in trade paperback and eBook

Imagine me twirling around in a rain of confetti made by left over packing material…

…because…

…Xenowealth: A Collection is now available as a trade paperback and eBook.

I made a promise to myself to get the much delayed limited edition hardcovers out before today, and I just barely got them all slipped into the mail yesterday and a last few stragglers in early this morning.

::Collapses::

But that’s not why you’re here.

The general eBook has been in the hands of early Kickstarter backers for...

Honored to say I’ll be an Author Guest at the Virgin Islands Lit Fest 2016 (along with Salman Rushdie, Earl Lovelace, Jamaica Kincaid and others!)

I’m totally psyched to note I’ll be an author guest at the Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair in St. Croix this April.

This’ll mark the first time I’ve been down the VI (where I went to high school) as an author.

Other guests include Salman Rushdie, Earl Lovelace, Jamaica Kincaid, Elizabeth Nunez and more!

So that’s a thing that’s happening…

Yeah.

Ecotones launches today

I have a reprint out in the latest anthology, check it out:

Ecotones is the fourth annual SFFWorld.com anthology, a project which has been bringing together established authors and eager newcomers to promote their writing. It presents fourteen stories of environmental conflict, and feature three great cover stars in Ken Liu, Lauren Beukes and Tobias S. Buckell.

(Via Ecological Stories from the Border Between Fantasy and Science Fiction.)

The Transformers/Gobots Christmas Surprise

For his 12 blogs of Christmas Paul Cornell asks:

Have you, in your life, a mishearing that you’ve persisted with, from
a song or a movie or anything, that you prefer to the original, or
that has special meaning for you?

So it’s the 80s, I’m a little boy growing up in Grenada, WI and money is tight. Some of my friends are super into Transformers. I live on a boat, so I don’t get TV, I’ve never seen the cartoon. I’ve seen some of the toys being played with.

In a move rare for me, I do fall for...