![]() ![]() The book is an immersive, complex study of characters and times. 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 Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. More importantly, it is a novel of the pandemic that explores the meaning of it all and the nature of reality, as well as our obsession with our own importance in history. ![]() The fulcrum of the story is the question of Gaspery’s ability to overcome his empathy for the individual in service of the mission. The protagonist, Gaspery, from the year 2400 is employed at the Time Institute to discover the origin of the glitch and interview those that have observed it, regardless of the individual consequences. This event occurs in the woods outside Vancouver BC in 1912 and in 2020, as well as in airship terminal 2203. ![]() The main characters are somehow present at the “file corruption or glitch,” an event that leaks or merges together moments from the past, present and future for an instant over the centuries. On the surface, "The Sea of Tranquility" is a sci-fi novel exploring simulation theory by using time travel to tie together several intertwined deeply human stories. ![]()
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