Straight to it this week as I’m just back from a Halloween trip where we braved key horror movie tropes by spending a week in a remote cabin in the woods in rural Cavan, a cabin numbered 13. Reader, we survived. We walked the dogs, read all day, and watched the Mission: Impossible movies in order ( Fallout is the best, Mission: Impossible II , the one John Woo directed, has not stood the test of time, just in case you were wondering).
I deleted my e-mail, social media and didn’t look at the news once. Instead, I spent the week at a terrorism trial, in a series of top-notch short stories, and circling the Earth 16 times a day. Samantha Harvey’s Orbital caught my eye on the Booker shortlist recently as it’s a rare gem of an idea — fiction set in space.
Not science fiction, just fiction with science. Not space fiction, just fiction that happens in space..