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Orbital

Auteur(s): Samantha Harvey
Narrateur(s): Sarah Naudi
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024

Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize

Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours

"Ravishingly beautiful."—Joshua Ferris, New York Times

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly 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, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos, and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.

Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.

©2023 Samantha Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio Conquête spatiale Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Hard science-fiction Science-fiction Interstellaire Système solaire
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The reader was garbled and unfortunately unable to make the story clear. A disappointment. The odd scene only came thru

A good idea but unable to hear

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This is a tedious listen. Perhaps it is the story or the narrator but I have tried several times to continue listening but stop after a short time. The descriptions of earth and space don't do any justice to the wonder of it all. It's like reading an old encyclopedia entry.

Boring.

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The organization of the story was so interesting, and the prose is so beautifully written, almost poetic at times. It causes you to think deeply about the Earth and our role in the world.

Beautifully written

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My parents always taught me to start with something positive, so I’ll say Sarah Naudi did a wonderful job narrating.
BUT, how the actual eff did this thing win an award?
Pretty sure this was written by AI.
Pointless drivel with a stupid ending. I’d say SPOILER ALERT…but nothing happens in this thing! I kept waiting, and waiting…and waiting for the story to take a turn. Never did. Just 1,000+ descriptions of the continents from space. Actually, this is officially the worst book I’ve listened to from Audible.
5 hours I’ll never get back.
At least I now know how to become an award winning author… get ChatGPT to churn out some overly descriptive crap about some astronauts on the space station. FML.

Complete waste of money

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Beautifully crafted and spellbindingly narrated this book is not meant to have a plot. One however simpis showered with thoughts and observations about the nature of humans and the fragility of our lives compared to the wonders of the earth and universe.
Simply stunning.

A phenomenon.

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Boring. Overly complicated descriptions of everything were completely unnecessary. if there was a way to get a refund I would be interested. 0/10

Overrated

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This book truly has no plot. I kept waiting for something to happen but nothing did. The drawn out descriptions of earth as the astronauts circled in the space station again and again got boring quickly - and that was basically the entire book. Maybe it didn't translate well to the audio format because it's won awards and made several 'best of the year' lists this year.

Plot? Never Heard of Her

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