Samantha Harvey
Orbital
A poetic novel by Samantha Harvey about a team of astronauts orbiting Earth in an international space station.
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MichaelaFirst to rec“This book may look slight (coming in at only 144 pages), but it packs such a punch. About a team of astronauts orbiting Earth in an international space station, the prose is dense, poetic and rich with observations about humanity.”
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naïa“A personal favorite of mine”
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Rachel““It wants what it wants and hopes what it hopes and needs what it needs and loves what it loves. So strenuously unrobotic is the astronauts heart that it leaves the earths atmosphere and presses it out - gravity stops pressing in and the counterweight of the heart starts pressing out, as if suddenly aware it is part of an animal, Alice and feeling. An animal that does not just bear witness, but loves what it witnesses.””
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