Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

I have to admit that I was a bit scared when Jeff Lindsay began reading from his book, Dexter in the Dark, at Books and Books on September 26, 2007.

I write for the same reason I breathe—because I have to.

Junot Diaz seemed relaxed last night as he flipped through the pages of his long awaited novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and began his reading to a capacity audience at Books and Books

Avocado - July 2007 – Abolition special issue has been published and it contains one of my short stories, "Third Time," which I read at last year's Miami Book Fair International.

O Şe Şango, which means in Yorùbá, “Thank you, Shango,” is my first novel and has been three years in the making

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Allen’s dark and insightful novel depicts narrator P’s sobering descent into his gambling addiction. P, a Miami native, is a school bus driver and desperate gambler who spends his nights (and many of his days) in South Florida casinos.

The following article is part of a multimedia presentation to young, minority writers at the University of Miami on July 27, 2007. 10. It’s All About You. “You have to be someone.” ~ Bob Marley Whether you have chosen the word or the word has chosen you, the vocation of writing is about creating a self, and this will mean cultivating a set of values that will guide your work. And I mean YOUR work and YOUR values.

One of the delights in reading speculative fiction is recognizing themes that we consider important without the natural prejudices that we bring to the text. We want to be in unfamiliar territory, yet we also want to see ourselves in the adventure. In Crystal Rain, Tobias Buckell, by staging his drama on the futuristic world of Nanagada, confronts one of the primary themes in Caribbean writing while at the same time subtly raising the issue of privileging and ethnicity in speculative fiction. In Crystal Rain, it's as if Buckell has taken the calabash of the Americas--its history, culture, and politics--smashed it, and recreated an alternate universe. In Buckell's world, Aztecas, following the urgings of their murderous gods, sacrifice innocents by ripping their hearts out of their chests. The gods of the Aztecas, the Teotl, wage war against the Loas and the Nanagadans, who are led by Prime Minsiter Dihana and her general, Edward Haidan.