Sea of Tranquility A novel

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, who wrote Station Eleven, which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics.

I just read Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.

Sea of Tranquility is very much a meditation on both the themes of Station Eleven, but also what it was like to have written that book and then to have lived through what we all lived through.

We knew it was coming and we were breezy about it. We deflected the fear with careless bravado.

One of the interesting things to me in Sea of Tranquility is that we get time travel, and at a point there's agreement that we mostly can't do it.

And so her book, which was already this beloved international bestseller, it found a second life. ... her new novel, Sea of Tranquility, is very much a meditation on both the themes of Station Eleven, but also what it was like to have written that book and then to have lived through what we all lived through.

Sea of Tranquility is somewhat about pandemics, but it also takes place on a moon colony that people have built after a huge amount of environmental disaster on earth. ... It's a time travel book, a book that suggests you might live in a simulation and a book that wonders what, if anything, would be different if we did.

We knew it was coming and we were breezy about it. We deflected the fear with careless bravado.

In Sea of Tranquility there is agreement that we mostly can't do time travel. In that way, time travel becomes a little bit like nuclear weapons. We have it. It's quite amazing technology ... but terrifying.