Sea of Tranquility

　　這是本傳遞靈魂溫度的科幻小說
　　時間軸度橫跨五百年，地理位置從溫哥華島到虛構的未來月球移民基地
　　唯一不變的是人性
 
　　貴族家庭出身的Edwin St. Andrew因一次在晚宴上出言不遜的行為，被家族流放到了大西洋對岸的溫哥華島，他孤身一人乘坐在蒸汽船上，那年，Edwin才18歲。當他被加拿大蓊鬱的綠意森林吸引，決定在這個名為Caiette的小鎮郊區散散步。走著走著，意外聽到悠揚的小提琴聲，循聲而訪，在他眼前展開的，將是一段畢生難忘的經歷⋯⋯
 
　　1994年，一位名叫Vincent的少女，在家附近無意錄下了一段影片。當她過世後，作曲家哥哥在2020一場音樂會上，公開播放了這段影片：Vincent走在Caiette小鎮的郊區，突然畫面全黑，唯能聽見喇巴中傳出斷斷續續的小提琴音，和嘈雜的人聲。200年後，已移居到月球上的作家Olive，決定要回到地球上展開巡迴簽書會，在書裡，有一段文字是這麼描述的：一個男人在飛行船轉運站中拉著小提琴，彷彿他就站在森林中央。
 
　　接著又跳了200年，地球人口因數量爆炸，月球上的殖民基地已經增加到三個之多。其中一位來自暗夜城殖民地的警探－Gaspery-Jacques Roberts，奉命調查在地球北美洲中，發生的一些神秘事件⋯⋯

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　　The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

　　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 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.