Poets & Writers Theater
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In this video, Samantha Harvey accepts the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital (Jonathan Cape, 2023), which snapshots one day in the lives of six astronauts traveling through space. “What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves, and what we do to life on Earth, human and otherwise, we do to ourselves,” says Harvey in her speech.
Tags: Fiction | Samantha Harvey | Orbital | Jonathan Cape | Booker Prize | speech | science fiction | 2024