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Booker prize winner Samantha Harvey: "political choices are sculpting the surface of the earth"
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The author of Orbital says Elon Musk's "individualistic" future is "problematic in all sorts of ways".
Samantha Harvey, winner of the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction speaks to Nicholas Harris in this episode of Culture from the New Statesman.
She discusses how her novel portrays the politics and powers of the world from orbit, and why the de-orbiting of the ISS marks the end of an era of "peaceful co-operation between nations".
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Nicholas Harris's write up of this conversation
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/11/samantha-harvey-booker-prize-2024-winner-interview-orbital
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