About the author
Samantha Harvey is an English novelist whose work crosses literary fiction, philosophy, history, and speculative perspective. Orbital received the 2024 Booker Prize for compressing a day in space into an extended act of attention.
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel compresses its plot into observation. Orbital is less a conventional space adventure than a sustained change of scale, asking what happens to human importance when the whole inhabited world fits inside a single view.
Where to start
Start with Orbital. Six astronauts and cosmonauts circle Earth sixteen times in one day, watching weather, borders, and private histories pass beneath them.
