2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS

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2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS

The International Space Station

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Samantha Harvey, who has won the ***’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel Orbital, has created a new genre: nature writing about space.

“I see it as a kind of space pastoral,” Harvey told the New Scientist podcast earlier in the year. “I wanted to see what you could do with words in a painterly way to try to conjure up that rapturous, joyful, extraordinary and also now somewhat grief-stricken view of the Earth.”

Orbital takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station (ISS). There are six…

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