Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of

false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”