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SLY MONGOOSE

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Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are normal. But to make a living, Timas like many other young men, is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.Timas’s life is turned upside down when a strange man crash-lands on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual storm — a secret that could lead to interplanetary war.As the invaded cities fall silent one by one, Chilo’s citizens must race against time to stop the enemy. And Timas will find out what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of Chilo’s surface.

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Sly Mongoose: Chapter Four

Chapter Four When Ollin returned two days later he snagged Timas's arm and pulled him along through the courtyard away from the watered down pulque. Ollin didn't tower over Timas, but his bulk and pre...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:00 GMT

Sly Mongoose: Chapter Three

Chapter Three The elevator slammed down to a slower speed on the final approach to Yatapek's city docks. Timas waited as the massive lower airlocks engulfed the small elevator and sealed themselves sh...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:07:00 GMT

Sly Mongoose: Chapter Two

The day Timas and his friend Cen saw the alien everything changed. Outside the spherical floating city of Yatapek, a hundred thousand feet over the ground, the winds had died. The forecast from the Ae...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:29:00 GMT

Read Chapter One of "Sly Mongoose" here!

Part One  Chapter One         Pepper lay strapped to a blunt, cone-shaped heatshield with a hundred miles of Chilo's atmosphere to fall through yet. The edg...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:47:00 GMT

Banner Contest: Win a signed copy of "Sly Mongoose!"

Want to win a signed copy of "Sly Mongoose" by Tobias Buckell? Copy and paste the banner below to the front page of your MySpace page and  send a message to let me know that you've done so. On Oc...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:00 GMT

Bookgasm reviews "Sly Mongoose"

FROM WWW.BOOKGASM.COM: Sly Mongoose Author: Ryun Patterson .. --> ALL ADSENSE ADS DISABLED --> Tobias S. Buckell's rip-roaring Ca...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing reviews "Sly Mongoose"

If Crystal Rain was Tobias Buckell's Caribbean steampunk novel and Ragamuffin his Caribbean space opera, perhaps Sly Mongoose could be described as his Caribbean tribute to George Romero. Mongoose is ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Tobias Buckell interview at Rescued By Nerds

"Sly Mongoose" author Tobias Buckell recently finished an interview with the gang at "Rescued by Nerds."There's lots of great stuff about the newest book, plus more about Tobias' Caribbean background ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:09:00 GMT

Who is Tobias Buckell?

A professional blogger and SF/F author originally born in Grenada, Tobias currently lives in Ohio with his wife, Emily. A reader - Tobias began reading at a young age. Throughout school he rea...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:52:00 GMT

SFReviews.net says---

Coming hot on the heels of Ragamuffin's Nebula nomination and sporting an explosive Todd Lockwood cover that is simply made of awesome, Toby Buckell's third (and best to date) novel Sly Mongoose conti...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:51:00 GMT