Emily st john mandel book5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Characters live on the moon because those sections are set in the future when we have made large sections of Earth unliveable. But all of that feels peripheral rather than something the author truly wants us to focus on. It’s just partially set on the Moon.” When describing the book, it might sound like sci-fi – there is time travel and moon colonies and futuristic technology. In trying to describe this book to someone recently I found myself adding the disclaimer, “It’s not really science fiction. In particular, characters and locations from The Glass Hotel appear here and it was helpful to already be familiar with them. ![]() ![]() While Sea of Tranquility isn’t precisely a sequel, I do think it’s helpful to have read both The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven first as St John Mandel is definitely writing here within the context of those two books. John Mandel’s most recent novel, especially having heard that the two were linked. John Mandel, Sea of TranquilityĪfter recently reading and enjoying The Glass Hotel, I was eager to get my hands on Emily St. A life lived in a simulation is still a life. …this is what the Time Institute never understood: if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response tothat news will be So what. John Mandel (Harper Collins Publishers, 2022) ![]()
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