

Sea of Tranquility is Mandel’s first foray into science fiction, split across four characters and time periods: Edwin St. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The critical difference between the two is that Olive lives on a moon colony. Olive, speaking to the reporter, is now in lockdown, as Mandel was when she wrote Sea of Tranquility. As her story opens, she is on a tour to promote the book, which like Mandel’s Station Eleven is being adapted for the screen, when a real pandemic breaks out. Like Mandel, Olive is best known for her novel about a “scientifically implausible pandemic”, Marienbad. “It’s kind of deranged, actually.” “I suppose anything written this year would be,” the reporter answers. “I’m writing this crazy sci-fi thing,” she responds. Partway through Sea of Tranquility, the sixth novel from Mandel, a reporter asks the novelist Olive Llewllyn what she’s working on. John Mandel looks to the inevitable future. In a nested story of epic tragedies, Emily St. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.

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