woensdag 13 november 2024

woensdag 13 november 2024 UK author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize with 'Orbital'. Harvey gets a $64,000 prize for her work. Nice!

The novel is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours.

Cosmic connection: Two black holes only 1560 light years away.

The Book: In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move. Watch the 2005 science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. On the cover of the guide: DON'T PANIC. Arthur Dent: Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

The Milky Way Galaxy compared with Star Wars' Skyriver Galaxy.