A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. 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 ...
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. 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. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live.
Profound, contemplative and gorgeous, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.
floating family; "Until then what can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and in hate with ourselves, make...floating family; "Until then what can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and in hate with ourselves, make a theatre, myth and cult of ourselves."; 84% deaths by lightning strike are men - live dumb, die young. 啊啊啊(展开)
3.5.Samantha Harvey is able to capture a unique kind of subtlety with poignant observation on humanity. The story is succinct and effective. Yet this is nothing innovative, which proposes the question...3.5.Samantha Harvey is able to capture a unique kind of subtlety with poignant observation on humanity. The story is succinct and effective. Yet this is nothing innovative, which proposes the question regarding its acclaim.(展开)
I don’t know why. Half of the book is filled with the outsiders’ view of the globe, like attending a geography lecture which always made me fall asleep when I was a high school student.
和朋友交流读后感时，两人不约而同想到一样的形容：“It’s a love letter to earth and humanity”。 （虽然有点俗） 我比预期中更喜欢这本书。这是一本美丽、诗意且富有哲理的书，相当感人而治愈。它的故事非常简单且平淡无奇：来自不同国家和背景的6位宇航员在一个国际空间...
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0 有用 cactusblvd 2025-06-26 10:26:26 美国
floating family; "Until then what can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and in hate with ourselves, make... floating family; "Until then what can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and in hate with ourselves, make a theatre, myth and cult of ourselves."; 84% deaths by lightning strike are men - live dumb, die young. 啊啊啊 (展开)
0 有用 VicWallflower 2025-02-15 02:28:49 加拿大
3.5.Samantha Harvey is able to capture a unique kind of subtlety with poignant observation on humanity. The story is succinct and effective. Yet this is nothing innovative, which proposes the question... 3.5.Samantha Harvey is able to capture a unique kind of subtlety with poignant observation on humanity. The story is succinct and effective. Yet this is nothing innovative, which proposes the question regarding its acclaim. (展开)
0 有用 钱一截 2025-03-25 09:53:43 北京
囫囵读完了
0 有用 鎖 2025-03-18 21:51:23 北京
I don’t know why. Half of the book is filled with the outsiders’ view of the globe, like attending a geography lecture which always made me fall asleep when I was a high school student.
3 有用 小宗 2024-11-29 11:17:16 上海
今年的布克奖获奖作品，意识流，但是不好看。对比英国意识流大师的作品，显得乏味，没有深度。