British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the ...
The confined characters loop through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over the course of a day, trapped in one another’s company ...
Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...
It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...
The day after winning the prize, the British author discusses choosing to write a story set in space, climate change, and why ...
Samantha Harvey's 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital explores the raw reality of life in space, devoid of fantasy.