Sea of Tranquility

de Emily St. John Mandel

First Edition, 255 pages

Langue : English

Publié 5 avril 2022 par Alfred A. Knopf.

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

(7 critiques)

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 the North …

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.

6 éditions

toch@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

Une madeleine de Proust d'un thème SF

3 étoiles

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.

Martin Rundkvist a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

Low-key time-travel scifi

4 étoiles

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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.

Ajbarbieri@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

Quick to read and gripping

5 étoiles

Was easy to read - that's what I needed at this time, and enjoyed the characters and plot. A great author.

Amanda Quraishi a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

A perfect novel.

5 étoiles

Not too long, not to short. Her writing is tight and I wasn't bored for even a second. She weaves together the different storylines perfectly and by the end, it's a marvelous piece of speculative fiction that hangs with you for days after you're finished. I loved it.

David H a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

A hopeful pandemic novel

4 étoiles

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.

Koven Smith a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

Fun, lightweight

3 étoiles

A breezy, fun(ish, given some of the subject matter) read. The resolution of the book hinges, somewhat, on a twist that is revealed near the end, and I must confess that I was finding the book far more satisfying up to the point that the twist was revealed. It just felt a bit too “plotty” to me in a book that otherwise revels in nice details.

bbbhltz a publié une critique de Sea of Tranquility par Emily St. John Mandel

Absolutely Meta

5 étoiles

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.

Sujets

Fiction
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Time Travel
Simulation Hypothesis

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