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‘Circular Motion,’ a debut both wildly imaginative and deeply emotional
Alex Foster’s debut novel, “Circular Motion,” is precisely 360 pages long, an appropriately exact total for a story about a near future in which international travel has been revolutionized by the “westward circuit,” a vast collection of “circuit vessels” that constantly orbit Earth without landing. Built and operated by a giant corporation, the westward circuit cuts down travel time by so much that it’s possible, for instance, for the narrator and his friends to do a “world crawl,” a pub crawl of the whole planet.