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The atmosphere turned thin and blue, the blue shaded into indigo, and then - it was like slipping through the skin of a bubble - there was black space.” “What it was like to leave Earth: a rapid ascent over the green-and-blue world, then the world was blotted out all at once by clouds. We eventually turn to a third section, set almost two more centuries later, featuring yet another new character, but both the vision and Roberts are there as well.

This section, too, refers to a vision in a forest and features the same Gaspery Roberts. Then a new section begins, this one set more than a century in the future, with a woman named Mirella Kessler who has just learned that her estranged friend Vincent is dead. The feckless young man’s melancholy ramble comes abruptly to an end following an inexplicable vision in a Vancouver forest and a mysterious encounter with a man named Gaspery Roberts. Andrew, scion of an aristocratic family, results in his expulsion from home. The novel opens in 1912, with a solo journey from England to Canada, undertaken after an act of modest rebellion by Edwin St. And whether that’s something they’ve had and lost, or something they want but can’t quite name, all feel adrift on the boundless seas of longing. That feeling of something lovely glimpsed and lost is everywhere in these pages - which makes sense considering that the exiles, grieving friends, lonely authors and lonelier time travelers Mandel sets in motion in this luminous follow-up to “ Station Eleven” and “ The Glass Hotel” are all trying, with varying degrees of success, to catch hold of what keeps eluding them.

John Mandel’s time-leaping sixth novel, “Sea of Tranquility.” It comes in the second half of the book, which is set in part in Earth’s far-off future, as a woman takes a commercial flight back to her home on the moon:

Let’s begin with a moment of beauty, one of many in Emily St.