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SYNOPSIS :
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.