Called “violent, poetic and compulsively readable” by Maclean’s, Tobias S. Buckell‘s often visionary, always fascinating work has garnered him multiple award nominations, a New York Times bestseller with Halo: The Cole Protocol (2008), and the World Fantasy Award for The Tangled Lands (2018 with Paolo Bacigalupi). Introduced in his debut novel Crystal Rain (2006), Buckell’s Xenowealth series of Caribbean inspired science fiction now includes Ragamuffin (2007), Sly Mongoose (2008), and The Apocalypse Ocean (2012). He authored a pair of Halo tie-in novels: The Cole Protocol (2008) and Envoy (2017). His thirteen novels also include Arctic Rising (2012), Hurricane Fever (2014), The Trove (2017), THE STRANGER IN THE CITADEL (2021 audio only; revised/print edition 2023), and coming June, 2024 from Tachyon THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT (with Dave Klecha).

Buckell’s nearly one hundred short stories have appeared in Science Fiction Age, Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root, Speculon, Analog, Mojo: Conjure Stories, NEW VOICES OF SCIENCE FICTION, Fortean Bureau, Nature, Electric Velocipede. Clarkesworld, Subterranean Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Apex, Lightspeed, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Slate, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, and many others. He often shares original stories through his Patreon. Buckell’s short works have been collected in Tides from the New Worlds (2009), Nascence: 17 Failed Stories and What They Taught Me (2011), Mitigated Futures (2012), The Tangled Lands (2018 with Paolo Bacigalupi), It’s All Just a Draft, Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories (2021), and Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories (2023). He edited the anthologies Diverse Energies (2012 with Joe Monti), The Stories We Tell – Bermuda Ministry of Cultural Affairs (2017), and Reclaim, Restore, Return: Futurist Tales from the Caribbean (2020 with Karen Lord).

Biracial and Caribbean, Buckell grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio, with his wife and two daughters.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the fascinating Tobias a wondrous birthday!