The Time institute, the establishment that developed the technique of time travel and is now devoted to the upkeeping of the integrity of time-lines, employs Gaspery-Jacques (whose sister Zoe is a physicist that is also employed by the Time Institute) to investigate an anomaly.

Though perhaps no summary would do the story itself justice, the general outline of the novel is as follows: In the 22nd century, humans have gone through multiple relocations from the lunar colonies to other planetary colonies due to our repeated “offense” of the drainage of natural resources of the geography. The episodicity of this method, as reflected in the Faulknerian multiple first-person narrative structure (though some date this technique back to the Gospels of the New Testament), is both necessitated by the novel’s dealings with non-linearly structured time, as well as its efforts to create discrete and recognizable characters. Mandel probes the apocalypse not as a source of mass panic but as a series of breakdowns in individual lives. Weaving together contemporary and historical tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic, World War I, and futuristic prognosis of potential technological failure, exemplified as the “file corruption” in the now parseable timeline (Part 6, Chapter 3). John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant journey in an exploration of the simulation hypothesis and prospects of time traveling in her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility. $25 (Hardcover) Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John MandelĮmily St. John Mandel / Penguin Random House, April 2022 –

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