Calypso is available from Titan Books

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

Style and story together are fresh and exciting, recalling the heady days of the 60s New Wave and suggesting how much more than standard space opera this genre can offer.
The Guardian

The book’s use of poetry is no mere gimmick. Langmead employs the rhythms and patterns of verse, along with some ingenious typographical formatting, to bring lush lyricism and an epic Homeric sweep to his story.
Financial Times

Langmead’s ambitious, original fiction is always something to savour, and Calypso contains some of his very best writing. Full of arresting imagery, emotional complexity and startling narrative turns, it’s a thoughtful, elegant, exciting — a really unique read. I loved it. – Sarah Waters

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 “Out of the Silent Planet” (1938) by C.S. Lewis, but with nanotechnology.
The Wall Street Journal

If you take a risk on just one SF book this year, make it this one.
SFX

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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.