Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled the pin.

The things we see when we’re young, sometimes they don’t stay with us.”

“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.” —