A space tourism technothriller

In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Tom Hill reviews a new novel, Orbit, that may be one of the first thrillers associated with space tourism. In the John J. Nance novel, tourist Kip Dawson is trapped in orbit when his spacecraft is apparently struck by a micrometeorite, killing the pilot. Will Dawson get rescued? And what happened exactly to the spacecraft? You’ll have to read the novel to find out (and don’t ask me; I haven’t read it yet.) One sign that space tourism is becoming a little more mainstream: Hill notes that the book is categorized simply as “fiction” instead of “science fiction”.