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Orbital

Orbital

Samantha Harvey (born 1975)

English editions

Written in English

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A small crew on the space station records weather data, runs experiments and tests how much their bodies can take, but mostly they look down. In one day they go round the planet sixteen times, over ice, desert, peaks and sea. Earth still tugs at them: news comes that a mother has died, and they watch a typhoon build over an island where people dear to them live. Their talk keeps returning to how breakable life down there is.

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About the book

Form
Novel
First published
2023
Author's age
48 when first published
ISBN

9780802161543 (Grove Press, United States)

9781787334342 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)

9781529922936 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9780802163622 (Grove Press, United States)

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