Sea of Tranquility

Dreamy, quiet, speculative, with a dash of existential dread. 
Shades of Greenwood, looking at different moments in time that are paralleled in their anxieties about the present and future, whether humanity will survive.
As ‘messing with time travel is dangerous' is a well worn trope in science fiction, I was glad to see the more compassionate response win out, as well as the nebulous premise of ‘simulation hypothesis' floating about to complicate things. 
I enjoyed that we got an answer to one mystery, and it leaves us pondering many other questions. 
I think the nature of this narrative - how we hop about - how we were introduced to multiple characters' lives - means that the reader is prepared for what might be considered an incomplete ending when attached to a different type of story. 
Still not going to read Station Eleven. This is as close as I get to a pandemic book. 

⚠️ Veteran PTSD, pandemic discussion