Tobias S. Buckell's Blog, page 19
October 5, 2015
Process neepery: my all new morning schedule for writing (did he say morning?)
I’m somewhat known for being a night owl. In the past my productive hours have been from 11pm or thereabouts until 3am. No one bothers me, nothing interesting is happening, I just put my head down and write.
Well, now I’m a morning writer.
Welp.
This doesn’t mean I get up with birds chirping and wide eyes and enthusiastically tackle what I’m up to with a grin and a cup of coffee.
First off, I’m not allowed to have any stimulants due to my heart. It’s a drag, but my last bottle of caffeine hap...
October 4, 2015
Surprise, Amazon is not a neutral marketplace
I was reading an article on Seeking Alpha, a popular stocks and investment site that I use to track general info about my stocks, when I spotted this article about Amazon banning sales of rival video streaming devices:
There is no such thing as store neutrality. Amazon has all the right to forbid rival products on its online marketplace.
(Via Dear Tim Cook, Amazon Just Banned Your Apple TV 4 – Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha.)
The Verge says Amazon’s decision is a baffling question...
October 2, 2015
New review of The Apocalypse Ocean
Hey, cool, a new review of The Apocalypse Ocean via SFF World:
Having just finished a read-through of all four Xenowealth novels I can recommend them in a heartbeat. This is science fiction at its most enjoyable, offering plenty to marvel at, while still giving food for thought.
This is still my favorite one star review of Arctic Rising
First of all, the protagonist, Anika, is a 5’11” Nigerian lesbian former mercenary. The sheer amount of suspension of disbelief with respect to this character is too much to ask from genre readers. There is a scene in the book where she lectures someone on the nature of “sexual orientation.” I would have liked to hear that lecture, because “sexual orientation” is a PC buzz word that no one really understands in the context of individuals’ multifarious sexual impulses, desires, and behaviors....
September 28, 2015
Baltimore Book Festival Recap
I got back late last night from Baltimore where I was the SFWA Guest of Honor. This year Sarah Pinsker took over running what I’m told is a constantly growing tent with what I saw was a great list of running panels and interviews.
Fran Wilde, the author the recently launched and great read Updraft, interviewed me about writing, sailing in fiction and much more.
The panels were a great deal of fun. I got to meet YA author Justina Ireland and catch up with Rosarium’s Bill Campbell, who’ll be tu...
I was recently interviewed on the podcast Creators Cast by Scott King. Check it out…
I recently did a two-part podcast interview with Scott King:
I sit down with science fiction author Tobias Buckell. Tobias is a New York Times Bestselling author and has been nominated for a both a Hugo and a Nebula
September 25, 2015
Arctic Rising to be Adapted into Graphic Novel
Rosarium Publishing will be adapting Arctic Rising into a graphic novel series.
The press release is winding its way around the internet and twitter, but here are the details:
The first of twelve issues of Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising will be released digitally in February 2016. Keith A. Miller (Manticore, Triboro Tales, and Infest) is writing the adaptation and the art is being done by comics newcomer, Tommy Nguyen.
Buckell states, “I believe in creating diverse futures, and writing Ar...
Arctic Rising: The Graphic Novel
Rosarium Publishing will be adapting Arctic Rising into a graphic novel series.
The press release is winding its way around the internet and twitter, but here are the details:
The first of twelve issues of Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising will be released digitally in February 2016. Keith A. Miller (Manticore, Triboro Tales, and Infest) is writing the adaptation and the art is being done by comics newcomer, Tommy Nguyen.
Buckell states, “I believe in creating diverse futures, and writing Ar...
September 21, 2015
The Baltimore Book Festival happens this weekend, and I’m a guest!
This weekend I’ll be appearing at the Baltimore Book Festival as the SFWA guest of honor, which is really nifty. I’ll be on some panels and at a meet the authors event, as well as signing books and being generally available. So if you live within a decent travel distance of Baltimore, I hope to see you there!
The list of science fiction and fantasy related events at the Baltimore Book Festival can be found here. Sarah Pinsker (and many others) has been hard at work pulling together authors an...
September 18, 2015
Scotch Review: Highland Park 12
A couple nights ago I suggested to my friend Brandon Rhodes that we hop in a car and go to the nearby small city (big town) of Findlay to hit up a state liquor store as I was out (gasp) of scotch. Which made me very sad, as I usually have three or four bottles of what I consider mid-range scotch in my liquor cabinet that I enjoy sipping around the edges of.
I picked up a bottle of Highland Park 12, which was new to me. However it is on my list of scotches to try that I’m slowly working throug...
