Debra Benita Shaw

Debra Benita Shaw is a Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of East London. She is a critical posthumanist interested in the relationship between technology, architecture and what it means to be human. She is also a literary critic specialising in science fiction. Her most recent monographs are Posthuman Urbanism (2018) and Women, Science & Fiction Revisited (2023).

Samantha Harvey
Life hacks

The Booker Prize winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, is a powerful meditation on our existence and hunger for life beyond Earth

- November 15, 2024 4 MIN READ

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis. While a typhoon of life-threatening proportions gathers across south-east Asia, six astronauts and cosmonauts hurtle around Earth on the International Space Station. Their everyday… Read more »