Sea of Tranquility

von Emily St. John Mandel

First Edition, 255 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 5. April 2022 von Alfred A. Knopf veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-32144-7
OCLC-Nummer:: 1251739463

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 …

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.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

2 Auflagen

toch@bookwyrm.social hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

Une madeleine de Proust d'un thème SF

3 Sterne

Lu en anglais.

Le thème traité dans le livre est un classique dans le genre SF. Il y a eu de nombreux traitements, s'alimentant de l'imagination ou de la science et éventuelles conjectures.

Ici, c'est avant tout un prétexte, je pense, un prétexte pour déployer différentes questions sur la société, mais des questions de vie et perceptions individuelles. Sans écrire un roman en 20 tomes, l'autrice nous offre un roman agréable à lire et qui donne à penser.

Parfois, certains développement me donnaient envie de critiquer. La musique du récit m'emmenait à nouveau. On pourrait qualifier certains sujets d'éculés. S'ils sont maniés avec finesse ou légèretés, ils peuvent non moins être agréables.

Lu en anglais.

Le thème traité dans le livre est un classique dans le genre SF. Il y a eu de nombreux traitements, s'alimentant de l'imagination ou de la science et éventuelles conjectures.

Martin Rundkvist hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

Low-key time-travel scifi

4 Sterne

Inhaltswarnung Discussing core plot point

I'm OK with the time travel paradoxes -- those are inevitable. But to me it's a pretty bad plot weakness here that the Time Institute notices, and manages to find documentation of, a glitch in the matrix that just looks to three observers like a migraine symptom or a petit mal epileptic fit. People's brains and senses make up all sorts of weird shit all the time, and nobody takes it as evidence of anything particularly significant.

mahdi hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

75%

4 Sterne

Zadna hvezda nesviti na porad.

Krasna knizecka. Opet trosku obava z pandemicke vlozky, prezil sem. Pro fandy hard bude cestovani casem jiste usmevny. Ale proste podobne jako ve Stanici 11 je tady spousta "poezie" v pribehu. Zaokrouhluju na ctyri hvezdy.

Zadna hvezda nesviti na porad.

Flauschbuch hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

A quiet tale of time travel

4 Sterne

Although the time anomaly and time travel in this book are of the standard variety the author manages to give the concept an uniqie and compelling spin. It's more about the characters that encounter the anomaly and are linked through it while they're unstuck and kind of isolated in their own time. I appreciated the inclusion of pandemics in the narrative but it's a little depressing that people don't seem to have learned from them even centuries in the future. There are some minor flaws but I liked the overall feel of the book.

quaad@bookwyrm.social hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

an enjoyable read.

4 Sterne

I liked the intertwined storylines and i thought the characters were well drawn and sympathetic. The only problem I had was the idea of the continuation of culture over hundreds of years. it rang false to me.

mouse hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

Lovely

5 Sterne

I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.

My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).

I found this touching and hopeful, I liked how poignantly the characters were drawn, and the themes of kindness and the vicissitudes of life.

My main complaint was that I think the simulation theory stuff was basically an unnecessary macguffin and didn't add to the themes (at least as far as they interested me).

David H hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

A hopeful pandemic novel

4 Sterne

I liked the story of isolated humans trying to find meaning in their lives, all tangled together and touched by the miraculous. It left me feeling hopeful and reassured.

Erica Molesworth hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

meh

2 Sterne

a little overrated

bbbhltz hat Sea of Tranquility von Emily St. John Mandel besprochen

Absolutely Meta

5 Sterne

Fantastic to a point I did not expect. Very meta, and covers aspects that took me by surprise. I rarely read the descriptions of books written by authors that I have read before, and here it totally paid off. If you have read the previous two works by this author, you will like where this book takes you.

Jens Prausnitz

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21. Juni 2023

Themen

Fiction
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Time Travel
Simulation Hypothesis

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