Calypso [Paperback]

Ambitious and immersive...an elegantly told meditation on how we can’t leave ourselves behind.   -Esquire Magazine - The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024

A ground-breaking, mind-bending and wildly imaginative epic verse revolution in SF. A saga of colony ships, shattering moons and cataclysmic war in a new Eden. 

Experience the Hugo Award and BSFA award-nominated, truly unforgettable lyrical eco-fiction masterpiece, for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Jeff VanderMeer.

Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew’s descendants, who revere her like a saint. 

She travels the ship with the Calypso’s creator, the enigmatic Sigmund, and Catherine, a bioengineered marvel who can commune with the plants, uncovering a new history of humanity forged while she slept. 

She discovers a legacy of war between botanists and engineers. A war fought for the right to build a new Earth – a technological paradise, or a new Eden in bloom, untouched by mankind’s past.

And Rochelle, the last to wake, holds the balance of power in her hands. A unique and memorable work. The Guardian's Best SF of 2024 on Oliver K. Langmead


An elegantly told meditation on how we can’t leave ourselves behind. Esquire's 30 best SF Books of 2024 on Oliver K. Langmead


Fresh and exciting. Screen Rant's 15 best SF books of 2024


Fun and easily readable ... It's imaginative and Rochelle's story is compelling ... If you’re seeing a similarity to another epic poem—one by Milton, say—you wouldn’t be wrong ... Think &lC{