2023年12月5日 · Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.

2024年11月12日 · Six astronauts and cosmonauts – from America, Russia, Italy, the UK and Japan – rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?

2023年12月5日 · A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours "Ravishingly beautiful."

Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3][4] literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US. It follows six fictional astronauts over 24 hours on an orbiting space station. [5] The novel received positive reviews.

2023年12月18日 · Set on the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” reveals how small and how large our world really is. Harvey’s newest work, the strangest and most magical of projects, is...

2023年12月5日 · “Orbital” is set inside a space station 250 miles above Earth as it laps the planet at 17,500 miles per hour. “On this orbit, orbit two of today’s 16,” Harvey writes, the crew of six men and...

2024年10月29日 · A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours "Ravishingly beautiful."

2023年11月2日 · Orbital is the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth?

these book club questions are from The Booker Prize. Orbital was on the Prize's 2024 shortlist. A full book club kit can be found here.

Published in 2023, Orbital is a literary novel by British author Samantha Harvey. The novel spans 24 hours in the lives of six astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station.