Even if someone looked me right in the eye and told me that they were truly invested in the relationship between Margit and Gunnie I wouldn’t believe them. Reading Deep Wheel Orcadia is a rich experience of interpretation and translation on multiple connected levels. And finally there's the sentiment, the wan Standard Poetic Register of watery hope and fickle gentle/fidge emotionality and belonging. The story itself was interesting enough, but I stayed (quietly mouthing orcadian to myself) for the unique writing style.

Though fair play to Giles, almost every other SF story I can think of which was heavily reliant on whaling analogies was a riff on and/or direct sequel to Moby-Dick, and at least this isn't that. The short poems, occasionally getting longer to play out a big scene, move quickly between characters and situations and I found the pacing a lot more suited to me than a lot of sci-fi, leaving me wanting more rather than feeling like I'd been told too much. which tranlates to: They don't speak about Darling at all, and they don't speak about art, and they don't speak about Astrid waitstayliving home or not. It is still celebrated today, however on a smaller scale, as many events are cancelled because of low numbers of participants. Matthew Fitt Deep Wheel Orcadia is a mysterious and moving novel in verse about finding home in the farthest reaches.It might seem at a glance that this novel is a mishmash of counterintuitive genre, form, and dialect.

The setting is a small, relatively isolated space station orbiting a gas giant, populated primarily by expats from Orkney.Another parallel I discovered was slow internet speed in Giles’ Orcadia – also very true for Orkney. Indigenous science fiction anthologies like Walking the Clouds (University of Arizona), edited by Grace Dillon, and Love After the End (Arsenal Pulp), edited by Joshua Whitehead, imagine Indigenous survivance beyond settler presents. It may make the lilt of the language more apparent, but it can seem like difference for the sake of difference.