Orbital is a 2023 novel by English novelist Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3][4] literary fiction, and philosophical fiction, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US.
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed ...
Orbital is one of only a handful of novels set in space to have been nominated for the Booker Prize over the years, and is the first space-set winner. At 136 pages, it is one of the shortest ever Booker Prize winners, though not quite as short as Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, winner of the 1979 prize.
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Orbital is a lush description of the gorgeous earth, and a broad-minded, level-headed, affectionate take on what goes on down here.” —Daisy Hildyard, author of Emergency Praise for The Western Wind “Beautifully rendered, deeply affecting, thoroughly thoughtful and surprisingly prescient.”—New York Times Book Review
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Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six international astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space ...