Sea of Tranquility

Locations
Call Number: Science Fiction / Mandel, Emily, Adult Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Mandel, Emily St. John
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

"This is a Borzoi book."
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. 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. "-- Provided by publisher.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

loved it submitted by sandri on July 25, 2022, 1:32pm i loved reading this it is very interesting

Read "The Glass Hotel" first submitted by Marian on July 27, 2022, 11:36am Some of the characters and the Caiette location carry over from "The Glass Hotel". You probably don't have to have read "The Glass Hotel" first, but I happened to listen to the audiobook of "The Glass Hotel" shortly before reading "The Sea of Tranquility" and was glad to have done so.

Another fine story submitted by kath on August 3, 2022, 8:50pm Read her other two books before reading this book. Initially, I was taken aback that there were the same characters from glass hotel and station eleven - I realized it was genius to help explain the anomaly seen in the woods. This story is creative and interesting - stay with it.

Different submitted by courtneyhooper on August 16, 2022, 10:52pm Different from her other works but compelling. A genre switch for sure

Great, fast paced book submitted by esmeth on June 27, 2023, 10:54am I really loved this book! It's a little outside of my comfort genre, but I was pleasantly surprised by how fast-moving the plot was and how engaging it was. I haven't read Station Eleven and didn't feel like I was missing any major context, but I'm excited to read it next.

Reflections in a tranquil sea submitted by FordAlpha on July 1, 2023, 9:44pm Emily St. John Mandel's third bestseller is something of a roman à clef, reflecting on the author's experiences of literary fame and the 2020–21 COVID lockdowns. It's far more than a thin veneer of fiction on recent events, however; it's another twisty science fiction treat from a writer who expertly threads human-scale meaning through writ-large sci-fi plots. I was a latecomer to "Station Eleven" and hadn't read "Glass Castle" before picking up "Sea of Tranquility", but I lost nothing by reading "Glass Castle" second of the two.

Another hit from Emily St John Mandel submitted by danibersche on July 5, 2023, 12:20pm I love Emily St. John Mandel’s books—she has such an interesting way of looking at the world, and her characters are fascinating. I appreciate how her last few books aren’t a series and are somewhat different in genre, but still occur in the same universe and have character overlap from book to book.
4.5/stars ⭐️

Love these books! submitted by pinkflamingo on July 11, 2024, 7:56am I think Sea of Tranquility is my favorite from the "trilogy" (although I recognize it's not truly one.) Even if you don't normally gravitate toward books with sci-fi elements, this is such a satisfying read and a lovely exploration of some very compelling characters.

Good read, but submitted by berkleya on July 25, 2024, 9:04am ... Did not like it nearly as much as station eleven. Also thought it leaned to hard into the multiverse/time travel thing.

5/5 stars submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 3, 2024, 10:18pm This was an absolute delight. Mandel is a creative worldbuilder and fantastic storyteller. She excels at the small details that make me feel like I’ve sunk straight into the book and belong there myself. This is another absolute winner.