First Edition, 255 sidor
På English
Publicerades 5 april 2022 av Alfred A. Knopf.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
An easy read, and the crossovers with her other books were interesting. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.
I liked the intertwined storylines and i thought the characters were well drawn and sympathetic. The only problem I had was the idea of the continuation of culture over hundreds of years. it rang false to me.
I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.
My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).
I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.
My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).
Nice short book. Nothing groundbreaking but adequately conveyed it's purpose.
Nice short book. Nothing groundbreaking but adequately conveyed it's purpose.
The (excellent) TV adaptation of Emily (St John?) Mandel's Station Eleven, about a pandemic, was in the works for years before being released mid-pandemic and permanently designating her That Covid Writer. Of course she has to deal with that in this novel. And so we have an actual (albeit 23rd century) version of her in the novel, linked to a bunch of others through time glitches. Which, arguably, is what fiction is; echoes of a moment through different times and narrators.
I'm not sure the ending needs to be as neat as it is. I kind of want it to be messier. And I'm torn between loving how little she changes mankind over 500 years and wanting there to be more that's unexplained. But again, she manages to create characters whose stasis (hey, it's a Covid novel) feels both relatable, horrifying and rich.
The (excellent) TV adaptation of Emily (St John?) Mandel's Station Eleven, about a pandemic, was in the works for years before being released mid-pandemic and permanently designating her That Covid Writer. Of course she has to deal with that in this novel. And so we have an actual (albeit 23rd century) version of her in the novel, linked to a bunch of others through time glitches. Which, arguably, is what fiction is; echoes of a moment through different times and narrators.
I'm not sure the ending needs to be as neat as it is. I kind of want it to be messier. And I'm torn between loving how little she changes mankind over 500 years and wanting there to be more that's unexplained. But again, she manages to create characters whose stasis (hey, it's a Covid novel) feels both relatable, horrifying and rich.
Fantastic to a point I did not expect. Very meta, and covers aspects that took me by surprise. I rarely read the descriptions of books written by authors that I have read before, and here it totally paid off. If you have read the previous two works by this author, you will like where this book takes you.
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