In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth.

“As a child, if I died and my family died, no one would care,” Ambroz told me at the time. “We were invisible. We were in ...

Neither a horror nor a comedy, this future-tinged tale settles for being a reductive collection of better movies.