2024 has been a big year for science fiction, from time travel stories to those set in space.
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It’s been a good year for science fiction, with a novel set on the International Space Station winning the 2024 Booker Prize. Orbital is a beautiful, sublimely written, and hopeful book set across 16 orbits of Earth.
You could say it’s not science fiction. After all, the ISS is a real place and the book is just a fictionalization of ordinary life there. Author Samantha Harvey describes it as a “pastoral space”. But then what…
