{"id":791098,"date":"2024-11-12T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791098"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:24:05","slug":"2024-booker-prize-goes-to-samantha-harveys-novel-orbital-set-over-24-hours-on-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791098","title":{"rendered":"2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey&#8217;s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The International Space Station<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">MSFC\/NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK\u2019s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel <em>Orbital<\/em>, has created a new genre: nature writing about space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see it as a kind of space pastoral,\u201d Harvey told the <em>New Scientist<\/em> podcast earlier in the year. \u201cI wanted to see what you could do with words in a painterly way to try to conjure up that rapturous, joyful, extraordinary and also now somewhat grief-stricken view of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Orbital<\/em> takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station (ISS). There are six\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2455903-orbital-wins-the-booker-prize-i-see-it-as-a-kind-of-space-pastoral\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Space Station MSFC\/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK\u2019s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel Orbital, has created a new genre: nature writing about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}