Deep Wheel Orcadia av Harry Josephine Giles

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<p><i><b>Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year</b></i><br><br>Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.<br><br><i>Deep Wheel Orcadia</i> is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire ¿ all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recen