OHIO, March 3, 2012 - A Grenadian author has been receiving good
reviews on his latest book.
Tobias Buckell has written a thriller called Arctic Rising. Set in a period
after global warming has opened the polar region to smugglers, drug traffickers
and other illegal pursuits, the book is a fast paced thriller, according to
initial reviews.
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. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from
itself—but in doing so; they have created a super weapon 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 super weapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the
future of the world.
Arctic Rising is available from many popular bookstores including
Barnes and Noble (including Nook) and Amazon.
Buckell, a New York Times Bestselling author, has had his work
translated into 15 different languages. He has published some 50 short stories
in various magazines and anthologies, and has been nominated for the Hugo,
Nebula, Prometheus, and Campbell awards.
Buckell was born in the Caribbean. On his mother’s side he is the
third generation of a family that started living aboard boats when his
grandfather sailed off down the river Thames in a sailboat with his family
aboard to explore the Mediterranean. His biological father’s side of the family
hails from Grenada.
“As a child I lived
aboard boats while growing up in Grenada, then on boats with various family in
the British Virgin Islands, and again in the US Virgin Islands where my family
introduced my stepdad to the life,” he said his biography.
“I moved to Ohio in 1995
for my senior year of high school after a series of hurricanes destroyed the
boat we lived on. My stepdad, who grew up in Ohio, moved us up to be with
family. After scraping by and barely graduating, I attended a small liberal
arts college in the small town of Bluffton, Ohio, and somehow never quite
managed to escape the small town.”
“I was a voracious
reader, and high school started spinning stories out due to my inability to pay
attention in class. My sophomore year I began completing stories and submitting
them to magazines,” he said.
“Somewhat
unimaginatively, I did go to college and get an English degree. More because I
was trying to buy time and continue working on my writing. It worked: I started
selling short stories my junior year of college while spending as much time
skipping class I could without failing out. I attended the well known science fiction and fantasy workshop Clarion during this time as
well.”
Since 2006 he has been a
full time author and freelancer and splits his time between working behind the
scenes for various blogs as an editor, copy editor, and writer, and also
writing novels and short stories.
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