Ara’s Reviews > Orbital > Status Update

“It wants what it wants and hopes what it hopes and needs what it needs and loves what it loves. So strenuously unrobotic is the astronaut’s heart that it leaves the earth’s atmosphere and it presses out… As if suddenly aware it is part of an animal, alive and feeling. An animal that does not just bear witness, but loves what it witnesses.” Phewwww, another 5 star before the end of 2025?!

“You have this glorious orbit and when you’re orbiting you’re impact-proof and nothing can touch you… Nothing can end. There could be no end, there can be only circles.” The disconnection from the mundane as well as the nostalgia of it, so humanely complex. The prose in it is incredible, giving existential crisis and I’m only 20 pgs in