Orbital by Samantha Harvey

This comprehensive reading guide includes a synopsis, list of main characters, excerpts from literary critics, questions, and discussion points.

This article includes a YouTube link to the 2024 Booker Prize ceremony in which the author gives a moving speech, and a link to Eleanor Wachtel’s conversation with Samantha Harvey from 2015 in which they discuss themes of aging, why she writes about the unfamiliar, and infusing her work with philosophical questions.

Elegiac and elliptical, this slim novel is a sobering read.

Literary Review, established in 1979, covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction. This is Sam Reynolds' review of 'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey.

This literary researcher identifies three themes for book club discussion: travel that disorients, disorienting art and art that saves.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new Book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space from the perspective of an international space station.

Biography from the author's website.

Rafaella Gonzalez makes a strong argument about the importance of literary fiction.

An extraordinary tale of our place in the cosmos.