Renowned writer Warren Ellis (THE AUTHORITY, PLANETARY) teams up with indie fave Collen Doran (A Distant Soil) to produce a hardcover graphic novel that explores man's relationship with the last unexplored frontier: space. When a space shuttle missing for a decade zooms back to Earth with seemingly alien modifications and a missing crew, three specialists cheated out of their dreams of spaceflight are the only ones who can unravel the mysteries behind the bizarre situation.
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A MYSTERY IN SPACE RETURNS TO EARTH
In the early 21st century, the space shuttle Venture has suddenly returned to Earth after disappearing ten years ago... its crew missing - save for the catatonic pilot - with new instrumentation, new engines, and covered in something very much like skin.
And with Martian sand in the landing gear.
Now a team of three specialists must discover where the Venture went, what's been done to it and what happened to the crew. Unfortunately, most of the answers are locked up in the seemingly twisted mind of the pilot. Does he really know the truth or is he simply a demented casualty of a space mission gone wrong?
Both a psychological mystery and a sweeping science fiction story, ORBITER is an original hardcover graphic novel about why we go to space... and what's waiting for us out there.
