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Samantha Harvey: Orbital (2023, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated) 4 stars

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments …

Review of 'Orbital' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This isn’t a book about anything. Nothing happens. There is no adventure and the author forgot to add the content of a story. However, there are endless descriptions of the earth from orbit. Page after page of run-on sentences, no paragraph breaks, and lists of things. Also lots of reflections on what it is to be human, what is humanity, and our role in the cosmos. Tedious stuff but an extra star for being relatively short.