Edited by Neil Clarke. Wyrm, $16.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-890464-30-1
Longtime magazine editor Clarke (Clarkesworld), inspired by the experience of becoming a "cyborg" after getting an implanted defibrillator, decided to explore new takes on cyborgs, and this anthology largely succeeds in presenting interesting twists
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Tobias S. Buckell, Author . Tor $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1227-3
John deBrun, an amnesia victim with a hook instead of a left hand, must save his adopted society on the planet Nanaganda by recovering a lost technological artifact, the Ma Wi Jung
, in Buckell's at times overly violent but enjoyable SF...
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Tobias S. Buckell, Author . Tor $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-765-31507-6
Set in the same far-future universe as Crystal Rain (2006), in which the ruling alien Satrapy has confined humanity to the fringes of a confederation of worlds linked by wormholes, Buckell’s second SF novel provides plenty of gun play and...
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Tobias S. Buckell, Author . Tor $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1920-3
Buckell returns to the universe of Crystal Rain
(2006) and Ragamuffin
(2007) for another action-packed story of human colonists fighting to survive on an alien world with all the odds against them. The story bounces between two protagonists:...
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Tobias S. Buckell, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59606-354-9
Contributing to a two-author, two-novella project (with Paolo Bacigalupi) set in the fantasy city of Khaim, Buckell (Tides from the New Worlds) chronicles the transformation of a middle-aged mother into a legendary warrior. Tana's meager existence...
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Tobias S. Buckell. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1921-0
Working from actual U.S. Navy reports, bestseller Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol) produces an intimate techno-thriller about an ecological showdown in an ice-free Arctic. Anika Duncan, a U.N. airship pilot, records a radiation signal and is thrust
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Tobias S. Buckell. Tor, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1922-7
In this near-future techno-thriller, monster Category 6 hurricanes and bio-warfare are the world’s two biggest threats. After thwarting an overheated anti-global warming scheme in Arctic Rising, Prudence “Roo” Jones, former agent of Caribbean...
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Tobias S. Buckell. Apex, $18.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-955765-09-1
These 15 thinky hard sci-fi tales from bestseller Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol) explore the confluence of man and machine and provoke contemplation on what it means to be human. In the title story, a starship’s crab-like maintenance robot is...
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Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. Saga, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9729-9
Buckell and Bacigalupi’s shared setting has some solid worldbuilding, but the four novellas that comprise this collection (two by each author) vary in quality. Bacigalupi’s “The Alchemist” has the most difficult task: introducing the city of Khaim,...
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