Oliver K. Langmead

Oliver K. Langmead’s books have been nominated for a Hugo award, the Philip K. Dick Award, a British Science Fiction Association Award, and a British Fantasy Award. His new book, The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, is coming from Tordotcom in October 2026. His verse-novel, Calypso, was named one of the best Science Fiction books of 2024 by the Guardian and Esquire magazine, and his previous novel, Glitterati was named one of New Scientist’s best Science Fiction books of 2022. City of All Seasons, co-written with Aliya Whiteley, was published by Titan Books in 2025. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and in late 2018 he was the writer in residence at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne.