Orbital

Orbital is a compact literary novel that follows six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station over 24 hours. As they circle Earth sixteen times, they conduct routine work, absorb news from home, wrestle with grief and isolation, and watch a typhoon gather over the planet below. Their perspective turns Earth into both a spectacular physical presence and a vulnerable shared home, making the novel a meditation on human life, environmental fragility, time, connection, and wonder.