Orbital’ is ‘more about Earth than about space

‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize
Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
Booker winner Samantha Harvey: ‘Orbital’ is ‘more about Earth than about space’
The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of its fragility
Samantha Harvey wins the Booker prize for “Orbital”
By Samantha Harvey. Grove Press; 224 pages; $24. Vintage; £14.99. T EN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth authors to Anglophone
Orbital by Samantha Harvey: the Booker prize-winner set to go 'stratospheric'
Bold' and 'scintillating' novel follows six astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station over 24 hours
British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins Booker Prize for fiction
The confined characters loop through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over the course of a day, trapped in one another's company and transfixed by the globe's ever-changing vistas
Who is Samantha Harvey, the winner of Booker Prize 2024?
In a first for space novels, British author Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize 2024 on Tuesday for her short novel ‘Orbital’, which follows six astronauts as they contemplate Earth from the International Space Station.
Samantha Harvey wins the Booker with 'Orbital', a "space pastoral" with an ecological message
British novelist Samatha Harvey, 49, has won the prestigious Booker Prize with Orbital, acclaimed by critics as a "special pastoral" with an ecological message. "What we do to Earth, we do to ourselves,
Samantha Harvey becomes the first woman since 2019 to win Booker Prize 2024 with Orbital, her groundbreaking space novel
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