{"product_id":"orbital","title":"Orbital","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e2024 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eWinner of the 2024 Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eStephen Colbert's Late Show Book Club Pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eA slender novel of epic power, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOrbital \u003c\/span\u003edeftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—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. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eProfound, contemplative, and gorgeous, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOrbital\u003c\/span\u003e is an eloquent meditation on space and a moving elegy to out humanity, environment, and planet.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42972576710736,"sku":"9780802161543B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/orbital","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}