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Out of This World

Spinning stories of humanity in outer space

Samantha Harvey (Photo Credit Matt Lincoln)
Ceridwen Dovey
Thursday 22 May 2025
12-1pm
Event Code: 29
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Space, in all its awe-inspiring, mind-blowing expanse, is still the final frontier.

Its greatness and grandness force us to reflect on our humanity, our existence and our place within the universe.

In Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize–winning Orbital, six astronauts contemplate the Earth and its inhabitants from the International Space Station. Ceridwen Dovey’s newest short story collection, Only the Astronauts, imagines the perspectives of non-humans in space, from an abandoned mannequin orbiting the Sun to a team of ‘tamponauts’ journeying to Mars.

Consider the limits of humanity in the universe with Samantha and Ceridwen in conversation with host Ashley Hay.
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Samantha Harvey appears thanks to the support of Fiona and Matthew Playfair.

Supported by

Carriageworks, Bay 20, The ARA Stage
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, NSW, 2015