Where to Start with Tobias S. Buckell
- Best entry point → Byways (A METAtropolis Story)
- Best standalone → Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
- Start the Khaim Novellas #1-4 series → The Tangled Lands
- What readers keep coming back to → Halo: The Cole Protocol
- Highest rated by readers → Halo: Envoy (Halo #21)
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Halo: Fractures - Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon
Halo • Book 19
by Tobias S. Buckell, Troy Denning, James Swallow, Matt Forbeck, Kelly Gay, Christie Golden, Kevin Grace, Morgan Lockhart, John Jackson Miller, Frank O'Connor, Brian Reed, Joseph Staten
★ 4.12 BLT Score (1.0K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.0K) - 4
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METAtropolis: Green Space
METAtropolis • Book 3
by Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire
★ 3.75 BLT Score (354 ratings)★ 3.75 Goodreads (354) - 6
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
by Brian Merchant, Claire L. Evans, Cory Doctorow, Sam Biddle, James Bridle, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Tobias S. Buckell, Tori Cárdenas, Shannon Chamberlain, Chloe Cole, Nan Craig, Malon Edwards, Omar El Akkad, Meg Elison, Rose Eveleth, Fernando A. Flores, Paul Ford, Sarah Gailey, Peter Milne Greiner, Malcolm Harris, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Dana Hudson, Sahil Lavingia, Tao Lin, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Joanne McNeil, Lincoln Michel, Sam J. Miller, Lia Swope Mitchell, Gus Moreno, Kevin Nguyen, Russell Nichols, Frankie Ochoa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Laurie Penny, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Robin Sloan, Emily J. Smith, Julian Mortimer Smith, Bruce Sterling, Seamus Sullivan, Wole Talabi, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Ellen Ullman, Debbie Urbanski, Jeff Vandermeer, Marlee Jane Ward, Elvia Wilk, Max Wynne, E. Lily Yu, Jess Zimmerman
★ 3.69 BLT Score (283 ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (283) - 7
METAtropolis: Cascadia
METAtropolis • Book 2
by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, René Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Tobias S. Buckell
★ 3.63 BLT Score (834 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (834) - 8
The Tangled Lands
Khaim Novellas #1-4
by Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias S. Buckell
★ 3.61 BLT Score (2.4K ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (2.4K) - 9
Old Venus
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Ian McDonald, Garth Nix, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Matthew Hughes, Paul McAuley, Lavie Tidhar, Allen M. Steele, Stephen Leigh, Eleanor Arnason, David Brin, Michael Cassutt, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Joe R. Lansdale, Mike Resnick
★ 3.61 BLT Score (734 ratings)★ 3.57 Goodreads (734) - 10
METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
METAtropolis • Book 1
by Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder
★ 3.40 BLT Score (3.4K ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (3.4K) - 11
Zombies: The Recent Dead
by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill
★ 3.34 BLT Score (939 ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (939)
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