{"product_id":"calypso-9781803365336","title":"Calypso","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Ambitious and immersive...an elegantly told meditation on how we can't leave ourselves behind.\" -Esquire Magazine - The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExperience the Hugo Award and BSFA award-nominated, truly unforgettable lyrical eco-fiction masterpiece, for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Jeff VanderMeer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRochelle 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd Rochelle, the last to wake, holds the balance of power in her hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver K. Langmead\u003c\/b\u003e is an author and a poet based in Glasgow. His novels include \u003ci\u003eGlitterati\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirds of Paradise \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMetronome, \u003c\/i\u003eand his long-form poem, \u003ci\u003e Dark Star\u003c\/i\u003e, featured in the Barnes and Noble and the Guardian's Best Books of 2015. Oliver is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow, where he is researching terraforming and ecological philosophy, and in late 2018 he undertook a writing residency at the European Space Agency's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, writing about astronauts and people who work with astronauts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Titan Books (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606684832018,"sku":"9781803365336","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_062cd534-962c-4b36-b833-431029785306.jpg?v=1759831396","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/calypso-9781803365336","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}