Samantha Harvey has been awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel, Orbital. The story centers on six astronauts who spend a day orbiting Earth during their nine-month space mission. The Booker Prize, renowned as the most prestigious literary award for English fiction published in the UK and Ireland, has previously honored notable authors such as Margaret Atwood, a two-time winner for The Testaments and The Blind Assassin, and Paul Lynch, who received the 2023 prize for Prophet Song.