Like a lot of people, I loved [b:Station Eleven|20170404|Station Eleven|Emily St. John Mandel|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1451446835l/20170404._SX50_SY75_.jpg|28098716]. Because of that appreciation, I stuck with Sea long enough to get into it, which is something I don't always do in these pandemic 2020s. I don't read a lot of literary fiction these days, so it's satisfying to follow a story that doesn't have a predictable ending. Except for the following part. I didn't have the easiest time remembering who some of the characters were in this back-and-forth timeline. Much of the novel takes place in moon colonies (on the Sea of Tranquility), which I think is pretty cool. So when a pandemic hits, it's not just global.

Covid-19 is mentioned, and one of the narrators shares his repulsion of people hugging and kissing at a party during flu season--not something that's done in centuries future, apparently! I'm having a hard time describing the book, so here are some quotes:

What is time travel if not a security problem?

Here's a good new-to-pandemia reference

(We were still thinking in terms of getting work done. The most shocking thing in retrospect was the degree to which all of us completely missed the point.)

Yowza. But also, when a man is about to be exiled, he asks one of his punishers to take care of his cat.

"Because we might reasonably think of the end of the world," Olive said," as a continuous and never-ending process.

Same goes for Twitter?