A novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men —from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—traveling through space for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.