2024 was a great year for science fiction, from time travel to space-based stuff
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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, hopeful book that takes place in 16 orbits around the Earth.
Some may argue that this is not science fiction. After all, the ISS is a real place, and this book is just a novelization of daily life there. Author Samantha Harvey describes it as a “cosmic idyll”. But then…
Source: www.newscientist.com
