‘If you love GRAVITY try James Smythe’Buzzfeed.com ‘Creepy, compulsive Science Fiction’Metro ‘Science Fiction for those who don’t think they like it’Independent ‘A tightly knotted, expertly constructed space trip of a read’Guardian ‘A wonderful examination of coping with loss, time anddeath’ SFX ‘It’s like an episode of Star Trek written by JM Coetzee’ Guardian

• THE EXPLORER won rave reviews from the Guardian, Shortlist, Financial Times and SFX • James Smythe has been compared to authors like JM Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro and Philip K. Dick for extraordinary blend of high-concept SF ideas with scintillating literary quality • This is accessible, fresh SF not just for genre fans: there is no vast space-opera or far-distant civilisations, just a lone man in space and a fantastic series of twists that are impossible to see coming • Close in spirit to modern SF movies like Solaris, Moon and 2001 • James Smythe is a talented young British author, selected as one of four authors for Welsh Publisher Parthian’s “Bright Young Things” promotion. He is also the author of the intriguing thriller THE TESTIMONY • Full digital marketing push through Voyager website and Twitter Competition: Extinction Game; Field Two. Cormac McCarthy;Kazuo Ishiguro; Gary Gibson; Simon Winstanley;