![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A stranger named Roberts, claiming to be a priest, questions him about this experience, but flees when Edwin becomes suspicious. Venturing into a forest, Edwin is overwhelmed by momentarily experiencing being within a vast, dark space, hearing a violin and other sounds he cannot recognize. Beset by ennui toward Victoria's similarity to English high society, Edwin travels to Caiette, a fictional settlement (which also appeared in Mandel's previous novel The Glass Hotel) on the sparsely-inhabited Vancouver Island. Passive in nature, Edwin drifts from Halifax west to Victoria, British Columbia. Andrew, youngest grandson of an English earl, scandalizes his father at a dinner party by criticizing the British Raj, and is exiled to Canada as a remittance man. In the novel, the lunar mare is the site of the first extraterrestrial human colony. ![]() The novel is named after the Mare Tranquillitatis, a lunar mare. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel considers "what constitutes reality, how time flows, and what memory is in the context of perception" by pondering the simulation hypothesis and time travel. It is Mandel's sixth novel and a work of speculative fiction. Sea of Tranquility is a 2022 novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. ![]()
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