{"id":20376,"date":"2023-06-28T02:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2023-06-27T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:59:27","slug":"book-29-of-52-sea-of-tranquility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/book-29-of-52-sea-of-tranquility\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 29 (of 52) &#8211; Sea Of Tranquility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20377\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/seaoftranquility.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20377\" class=\"wp-image-20377 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/seaoftranquility.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/seaoftranquility.jpg 326w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/seaoftranquility-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea of Tranquility &#8211; Emily St. John Mandel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A blip in the matrix ties together an exiled Englishman forced to move to Canada in the early 20th century, a young woman with a video camera in the late 20th century, and a novelist from the early 23rd century.\u00a0 An investigator goes to visit all three, hoping to determine if reality is a simulation or not.\u00a0 When he goes off script and tries to change the past, he finds the true cause for the blip may be closer to home than he realized.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sea of Tranquility<\/em>, the latest from Emily St. John Mandel, was the Goodreads Choice Awards winner for best science fiction release in 2022.\u00a0 I am not familiar with her or her work at all, despite watching some (but not finishing) the adaptation of her 2014 novel <em>Station Eleven<\/em>.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t all that sure where this one was going, and almost thought it was going to be a collection of short stories based on a similar theme before the actual story kicked in and tied it all together.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t read as much science fiction as I used to, the odd <em>Star Trek<\/em> novel aside, so I may need to look more into her work going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blip in the matrix ties together an exiled Englishman forced to move to Canada in the early 20th century, a young woman with a video camera in the late 20th century, and a novelist from the early 23rd century.\u00a0 An investigator goes to visit all three, hoping to determine if reality is a simulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10685,9295,10684,563,10686],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-emily-st-john-mandel","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-sea-of-tranquility","tag-star-trek","tag-station-eleven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20378,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions\/20378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}