Trevor Burrows<p>"Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, that even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene. Sometimes they dream the same dreams -- of fractals and blue spheres and familiar faces engulfed in dark, and of the bright energetic black of space that slams their senses. Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."</p><p>-- the stellar <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstSentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstSentences</span></a> of *Orbital* by Samantha Harvey</p><p>(will use this as my running <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReadingNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadingNotes</span></a> thread for this book)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SamanthaHarvey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SamanthaHarvey</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Orbital" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orbital</span></a></p>