Best-selling novelist Charles Soule will discuss his new futuristic mystery The Endless Vessel, with fans during his Ocean County Library virtual author talk on Saturday, July 15 at 2 p.m.

The Endless Vessel, available at the Ocean County Library, employs science, history and drama to analyze the value and fragility of the human spirit. The setting is a dystopian world in which an insidious malaise known as “The Grey” is bringing life to a standstill. Scientist Lily Barnes, struggling to reverse humankind’s downward spiral, sets a course through time and space for answers.

The New York-based former attorney gained legions of fans through the Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and Star…