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Read an Excerpt From Oliver K. Langmead&#8217;s <i>Calypso</i>

Oliver K. Langmead

Oliver K. Langmead writes speculative fiction. His new verse-novel, Calypso, will be published by Titan Books in 2024. Glitterati was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award and named one of New Scientist’s best Science Fiction books of 2022. His previous books include Birds of Paradise, Metronome, and the verse-novel Dark Star, which was featured in the Guardian's Best Books of 2015. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster, and in late 2018 he was the writer in residence at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne.