Tobias S. Buckell - Free Library Land Online - Animals https://animals.library.land/ ru Tobias S. Buckell - Free Library Land Online - Animals DataLife Engine Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689326-zen_and_the_art_of_starship_maintenance_and_other_stories.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689326-zen_and_the_art_of_starship_maintenance_and_other_stories.html Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon.
This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.
This collection includes the following stories:
Io, Robot
A Jar of Goodwill
Pale Blue Memories
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance
The Might Slinger
Sunset
Chi's Cargo
Destination Day Blues
The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex
Five Point Three Milligrams
By the Warmth of Their Calculus
DW
The Very Last Curator of What Little Remains of the Western World
A Girl and Her Rover
The Longest Distance

]]> Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:51:39 +0300 Halo: The Cole Protocol https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/3136-halo__the_cole_protocol.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/3136-halo__the_cole_protocol.html Halo: The Cole Protocol
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path. ]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:12:33 +0300 Halo: Evolutions, Volume I https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/3135-halo__evolutions,_volume_i.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/3135-halo__evolutions,_volume_i.html Halo: Evolutions, Volume I
by Tobias S. Buckell , Jonathan Goff, Nicolas Bouvier (Illustrator), Robert McLees, Karen Traviss , Kevin Grace, Eric Raab, Frank O'Connor , Fred Van Lente , Tessa Kum, Gabriel Garza (Illustrator), Eric S. Nylund , Jeff VanderMeer , B. K. Evenson, Robt McLees … When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there.   When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge.   In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend.   This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence. ]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:12:24 +0300 When All Was Brillig: Patreon Stories 2017-2019 https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689327-when_all_was_brillig_patreon_stories_2017-2019.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689327-when_all_was_brillig_patreon_stories_2017-2019.html When All Was Brillig: Patreon Stories 2017-2019
]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:51:40 +0300 The 2021 Patreon Collection https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689325-the_2021_patreon_collection.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/689325-the_2021_patreon_collection.html The 2021 Patreon Collection
]]> Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:51:38 +0300 Hurricane Fever https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/243080-hurricane_fever.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/243080-hurricane_fever.html Hurricane Fever
]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:42:18 +0200 Envoy https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/224736-envoy.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/224736-envoy.html Envoy
An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!
It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War...and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint Occupation Zone, a decisive new battle suddenly erupts. Human colonists and the alien Sangheili have already been living a tension-filled co-existence in this place, with Unified Earth Government envoy Melody Azikiwe attempting to broker a lasting peace between their two species. But as civil war now engulfs the Sangheili settlers, Melody must act on an additional covert assignment courtesy of the Office of Naval Intelligence: find a way to free the SPARTAN-IIs known as Gray Team, held in stasis since the end of the war by a cunning Elite fleetmaster consumed with vengeance. And none can anticipate the ongoing violence leading to the discovery of an even greater, unstoppable threat—one hidden for eons below the surface of the...]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:39:16 +0200 The Cole Protocol https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/228122-the_cole_protocol.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/228122-the_cole_protocol.html The Cole Protocol
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems.

Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble—and have come...]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:20:19 +0200 Tides From the New Worlds https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248401-tides_from_the_new_worlds.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248401-tides_from_the_new_worlds.html Tides From the New Worlds
]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:30:22 +0200 Arctic Rising https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/102346-arctic_rising.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/102346-arctic_rising.html Arctic Rising
Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean. Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth’s surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She’s intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice. Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands. Review FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:19:17 +0200 Ragamuffin https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248400-ragamuffin.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248400-ragamuffin.html Ragamuffin
]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:30:22 +0200 Halo: The Cole Protocol https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/224735-halo_the_cole_protocol.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/224735-halo_the_cole_protocol.html Halo: The Cole Protocol
SUMMARY: In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:39:16 +0200 Sly Mongoose https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248402-sly_mongoose.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/248402-sly_mongoose.html Sly Mongoose
]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:30:22 +0200 The Executioness https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/124737-the_executioness.html https://animals.library.land/tobias-s-buckell/124737-the_executioness.html The Executioness
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