Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
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Orbital snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space, selected for one of the last space-station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled. Astronauts and cosmonauts from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan have left their lives behind to travel at more than seventeen thousand miles an hour as Earth reels below. Brief communications with family, photos and talismans, dehydrated meals, gravity-free sleep, and regimented exercise fill the hours as they form bonds against utter solitude. Most of all they behold and record their silent blue planet through sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright constellations of the galaxy, experiences at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.
Genres: Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780802163622
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