2024 has been a great year for science fiction, from time travel stories to those set in space
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It’s been a good year for science fiction, with a novel set on the International Space Station winning the 2024 Booker Prize. Orbital It is a beautiful, sublime and hopeful book that takes place in 16 orbits of the Earth.
One might say that it is not science fiction. After all, the ISS is a real place and the book is just a novelization of ordinary life on it. Author Samantha Harvey He describes it as a “pastoral space”.. But then what…
