Tobias S. Buckell is the author of several novels including "Halo: The Cole Protocol", "Arctic Rising, Sly Mongoose", "Ragamuffin, " and "Crystal Rain". His books have been finalists for the Nebula Award, the Prometheus Award, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. He hails from the Caribbean, where as a child he lived on boats in Grenada and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Ohio after a series of hurricanes destroyed the boat they were living on, and he attended Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio, where he still lives to...