Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Vintage Publishing, 2025)
Fiction
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (ISBN: 9781529922936, hardback) is a story of astronauts – in this case six, rather than two – orbiting the earth. This slim novel is extraordinary: the scale of the setting is huge – space, the Earth, the Moon; the astronauts, in their spacecraft, feel tiny by comparison, a mini collection of weightless humans, tethered to the Earth; and their view of us down here unsettles, distorted by their worries and hopes.