Booker winning Orbital by Samantha Harvey is to be the subject of Urmston Science Fiction Book Group in February 2025. Orbital is about life on the International Space Station. (ISS).
It reminded me of when I did the research for ARIA: Left Luggage, which begins with the discovery of a metallic suitcase in the struts of the ISS. Nerd that I was and am, I was keen to ensure that those
Leroy Chiao, US astronaut, wearing a Russian space suit on the ISS.
struts couldn’t be magnetic so I found a Nasa engineer’s email and asked him, Leroy Chaio. Imagine my surprise when he confirmed the struts are a thin aluminium, too thin for his liking because he was up there in orbit as we spoke! I don’t know of any other science fiction writer who’d been in live communication with an astronaut in orbit.
If this piqued your interest ARIA: LEFT LUGGAGE, which won the best SF novel by a readers’ poll and features the original premise of infectious amnesia, can be found on this universal Amazon link here:
