Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The latest book by Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquillity is a fabulous speculative fiction read where parallel lives and time travel are explored. Spanning the years 1912 to 2401, a detective is on the hunt for a strange anomaly in time that occurs during several lifetimes involving various people. Are we living within a simulation? Is it a glitch in the system?
The detective finds links to certain people, and this forms the links to a moment in time where each era simultaneously is caught in a brief occurrence of sound and sensation. This anomaly is not related to their place in time, leaving the people involved out of sorts for a few minutes. Travelling to colonies of the future, on the moon and an old Earth with pandemics, detective Gaspery - Jacques Roberts in on a mission to discover the meaning of it all. However, there is one thing he must not do, change anything.
This cleverly crafted story leaves you guessing right up until the end with a surprise twist.
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