![]() ![]() ![]() Disorienting in nature, the anomaly acts as a sort of tunnel that allows characters across centuries to experience one another’s environments.Īt the core of the novel is the question of whether the multiverse Mandel has created is “real,” or if it is a computer simulation being run by some unknown overlord, human or otherwise. Andrew, a 20th-century minor aristocrat who travels by rail across Canada Olive Llewellyn, a 23rd-century author who Mandel admits is based on herself and Gaspery-Jacques, a time traveler from a 25th-century colony on the moon, are bound together by a single anomaly that rips through the fabric of space and time, and punctures ordinary notions of reality. “So, I set it on the moon.”Īll of the characters, including Edwin St. “My immediate instinct was to set (the story) really far away,” she said. She was in lockdown in her apartment in New York with her husband and her daughter, and everywhere on Earth seemed too close. When Mandel sat down to write the novel, it was the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Spanning six centuries – from 1912 to 2401 – “The Sea of Tranquility” starts right before World War I and ends up at a human colony on the moon. ![]()
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