Writing as an Actress

How does Samantha Harvey know everything she writes in her novel Orbital? How does she place herself, so lightly, in the head of people who do not exist, in a place where she has never been? And above all, this: how does she make it so true? If the cover page opens the way to the universe, the first thing you think is that it is a story about aliens. The planets placed there, in a beautiful but false equidistance. But Orbital, the novel of the B…