Orbital-by-Samantha-Harvey-2023

BookNotes author: Samantha Harvey

Read mostly on the plane to Lisbon. Felt appropriate, the lands and sea reduced to little below, the feeling of slight weightlessness.

Six astronauts orbiting the earth, over the course of a single ‘day’ or 16 orbits, watching a huge typhoon form in the pacific.

• Humanity is rare and fragile. Our planet is fragile
• Finding meaning in a sea of darkness.
• The boundaries separating humans and countries are not much at all.
• Borders are fictional but politics impacts the planet nevertheless.
• Lucious prose reminiscent of Carl Sagan.