Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins the Booker Prize NYT | Top Stories Alex Marshall 13 November 2024 at 06:27 Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station. © Henry Nicholls/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWhile writing the novel, Samantha Harvey said she watched a YouTube stream showing Earth from space. She found the images “intimate and domestic,” she said.