Samantha Harvey, winner of the UK’s top fiction prize, the Booker Prize, for her novel Orbitalhas created a new genre: what nature writes about space.
“I see it as a kind of pastoral space,” Harvey told him The New Scientist podcast earlier this year. “I wanted to see what you could do with words in a painterly way, to try to create this stunning, joyful, extraordinary and now slightly sad view of the Earth.”
Orbital It takes place every 24 hours on the International Space Station (ISS). There are six…