{"id":791578,"date":"2024-11-29T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T07:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791578"},"modified":"2024-11-29T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T07:55:01","slug":"the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-2024-from-adam-roberts-to-rachel-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791578","title":{"rendered":"The best new science fiction books of 2024, from Adam Roberts to Rachel Kushner"},"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\">2024 has been a great year for\u00a0sci-fi, from time travel stories to those set in space<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Matt Mawson\/Millennium Images, UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It has been a good year for science fiction, with a novel set on the International Space Station winning the 2024 Booker prize. <i>Orbital<\/i> is a beautiful, sublimely written, hopeful book that takes place over 16 orbits of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>One might argue that it isn\u2019t science fiction. After all, the ISS is a real place and the book is simply a novelisation of ordinary life upon it. Author Samantha Harvey describes it as \u201cspace pastoral\u201d. But then what\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435190-400-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-2024\/?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>2024 has been a great year for\u00a0sci-fi, from time travel stories to those set in space Matt Mawson\/Millennium Images, UK It has been a good year for science fiction, with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791578","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\/791578","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=791578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}