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Jeebo

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5. "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel
Sun Jul 2, 2023, 12:32 PM
Jul 2023

Just finished "Ice" by Anna Kavan. It reminds me a lot of "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Leguin, but "The Left Hand of Darkness" is much better, I've read it three times and it's one of my all-time favorites.

I just started "Sea of Tranquility" and I'm already almost half through it, it's pretty hard to put down. I didn't realize that it's a science fiction novel until about a fourth of the way through it. It's about future moon colonies and time travel. I read her "Station Eleven" twice some years back and it's really hard to put down too. I'd also categorize it as science fiction, but of the dystopian survivors-of-a-global-catastrophe-wandering-through-the-rubble-of-a-ruined-civilization subgenre.

-- Ron

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"Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel Jeebo Jul 2023 #5
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