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Samantha Harvey won Britain’s highest fiction award, the Man Booker Prize, for her novel. Orbitalhas created a new genre of nature writing about space.
“I think of it as a kind of cosmic idyll,” Harvey said. new scientist Podcast from earlier this year. “I wanted to see what I could do with words in a painterly way to conjure up images of that jubilant, joyful, extraordinary, and now slightly sorrow-stricken Earth. It was.”
Orbital It takes place over a 24-hour period on the International Space Station (ISS). There are six…
