Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon.

This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.

This collection includes the following stories:

Io, Robot

A Jar of Goodwill

Pale Blue Memories

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance

The Mighty Slinger

Sunset

Chi's Cargo

Destination Day Blues

The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex

Five Point Three Milligrams

By the Warmth of Their Calculus

DW

The Very Last Curator of What Little Remains of the Western World

A Girl and Her Rover

The Longest Distance

Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times best-selling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work.

His novels and almost one-hundred stories have been translated into twenty different languages. His work has been nominated for awards like the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author.


He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife and two daughters where he teaches Creative Writing at Bluffton University. He is also an instructor at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program.


Also available as an ebook for $6.99.