Books by Tobias S. Buckell
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review 1: I think it's fair to say that this just wasn't my cup of tea, despite its potential, and i gave up about halfway in. Set in a post-global warming future where the polar caps have melted, Arctic Rising includes many of the incredibly interesting geopolitical details that are fun t...
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review 1: Diverse Energies: A short story collection of varied dystopian themes, protagonists and races. Stories that break traditional barriers and concepts yet ground the reader via the "common man" protatgonist. I enjoyed most of the stories, albeit I felt a few not up to snuff either a...
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review 1: The book "Cole Protocol" by Tobias S. Buckell does an amazing job portraying the lives of all three sides of the Human-Covenant war. The book is centered on a group of Spartans who infiltrate an Insurrectionist asteroid-habitat. Their primary goal is to enact he Cole Protocol, wh...
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review 1: A worthy companion to Bacigalupi's The Alchemist and taking place in the same world. Buckell, too, raises some important moral questions as a logical outgrowth of the story. When do you sacrifice personal relationships to the greater good? What if the people you are fighting r...
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review 1: This was an interesting read for anyone that has played any of the Halo games. Anything you might be interested in knowing is in this encyclopedia and there is a lot of nice Halo themed artwork to look at.The writing isn't Shakespeare, and it sometimes feels like later entries a...
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review 1: I'm really starting to enjoy the fact that Halo novels spoonfeed you their raison d'etre. I find it charming, in a way. As with "Harvest Contact" telling us straight up Avery Johnson has to "earn back his humanity," in this one we're told that (Jacob?) Keyes "wasn't the commander...