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I mostly like science-fiction. About to embark on a re-read of the Discworld series.

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8% complete! Hyperlink Your BOOKS has read 1 of 12 books.

Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven (2014, Knopf Publishing Group, Knopf) 4 stars

Station Eleven is a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, her fourth. It takes …

Survival is insufficient

5 stars

Station Eleven is a novel about a pandemic of apocalyptic proportions, but, crucially, it is not about the end of the world so much as it is about the birth of a new one.

It follows several characters through different periods in their lives, from decades before the pandemic, to its early days, to 15 and 20 years after the event. Most of the main characters are creatives with different relationships to their art, and to Arthur Leander, a famous actor who dies onstage during a production of King Lear, on the day that the pandemic reaches North America. His death serves a focal point, and symbolically as the death of the old world that brings forth new life.

Life after the pandemic is difficult and dangerous, especially at the beginning. However, most of the focus is on a period 20 years after the event, when people have mostly settled …

Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven (2014, Knopf Publishing Group, Knopf) 4 stars

Station Eleven is a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, her fourth. It takes …

Content warning Comparisons of TV show & Novel, spoilers for both

Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven (2014, Knopf Publishing Group, Knopf) 4 stars

Station Eleven is a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, her fourth. It takes …

Content warning Comparisons of TV show & Novel, so possible spoilers for both