Synopses & Reviews
Sly Mongoose: a thrilling science fiction tale by the New York Times bestselling author—now featuring brand-new cover art.Tobias S. Buckell is well known as the New York Times bestselling author of Halo: The Cole Protocol. Tor is proud to reintroduce his early science fiction novels to his many fans in handsome trade paperback editions featuring stunning new cover art.
Welcome to Chilo, a planet blasted by corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. A planet where people live in floating cities high above the inferno. A select group of young men, including fourteen-year-old Timas, risk death to obtain the raw materials necessary for survival by travelling down through the acid clouds to mine the planets surface.
Timass life is turned upside down when a man named Pepper crash-lands on the city. Pepper is fleeing a bizarre alien intelligence, and he bears ominous news that a full-scale invasion cannot be far behind.
As Timas and Pepper try to convince the reluctant city government to prepare for war, floating cities all across Chilo fall silent one by one. Time is running out for Timas and Pepper to discover how to defeat an enemy that turns Chilos own citizens into monsters, and to discover the secret hidden beneath Chilos deadly clouds—a secret that could save the planet and may prevent interplanetary war.
Review
“Sly Mongoose combines weird and wonderful tech and human cultures of fantastic diversity with some of the coolest planet-building this side of Hal Clement.”—Elizabeth Bear
“Tobias S. Buckell is a dazzling new voice.”—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-Winning author of Hominids on Crystal Rain
“Ragamuffin is a winner.”—San Jose Mercury News
“First-class space adventure, with tip-top characterization, action, and world-building. May Buckell enjoy a long, productive career.”—Booklist on Ragamuffin
“Buckell plays with Caribbean and Aztec cultures, bending their exotic flavor to technology-flavored ends. A lot of fun.”—Publishers Weekly on Ragamuffin
“Crystal Rain is refreshing and imaginative, an exotic stew of cultures, myths, and technology.”—Kevin J. Anderson, bestselling co-author of Sandworms Of Dune
“Buckells first novel conjures a vividly imagined world, spiced with intrigue and adventure that unfolds at a breakneck pace.”—Booklist on Crystal Rain
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Praise for Tobias S. Buckell
“Buckell delivers double helpings of action and violence in a plot-driven story worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.” —Publishers Weekly on Sly Mongoose
“Tobias Buckell is stretching the horizons of science fiction and giving readers a hell of a lot of swashbuckling fun in the bargain.”
—John Scalzi, bestselling author of Fuzzy Nation on Sly Mongoose
“Ragamuffin is a winner.” —San Jose Mercury News
“Crystal Rain is refreshing and imaginative, an exotic stew of cultures, myths, and technology.” —Kevin J. Anderson, bestselling coauthor of The Dune novels
Review
“
Sly Mongoose combines weird and wonderful tech and human cultures of fantastic diversity with some of the coolest planet-building this side of Hal Clement.”—Elizabeth Bear, award-winning author
“Buckell delivers double helpings of action and violence in a plot-driven story worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.”—Publishers Weekly
“Tobias Buckell is stretching the horizons of science fiction and giving readers a hell of a lot of swashbuckling fun in the bargain.”—John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author
“Buckells world building, full of strong Aztec and Caribbean elements, is spectacular; the story, finely tuned and engrossing.”—Booklist
“Zombies. Interplanetary battles. Alien races. A hero that can destroy a city in a single bounce. Whats not to love?”—RT Book Reviews
Synopsis
Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are normal. But to make a living, Timas like many other young men, is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.
Timass life is turned upside down when a strange man crash lands on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual storm—a secret that could lead to interplanetary war.
As the invaded cities fall silent one by one, Chilos citizens must race against time to stop the enemy. And Timas will find out what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of Chilos surface.
Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface of a planet plagued by corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. But to make a living, Timas is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.
Synopsis
A thrilling science fiction tale by the New York Times bestselling author—now featuring brand-new cover art
About the Author
TOBIAS S. BUCKELL is a New York Times bestselling author whose books and fifty-plus short stories have been translated around the world. Buckell hails from the Caribbean, where as he child he lived on boats in Grenada and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands.