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Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. [1][2][3] It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. The book was published in 2014, and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award the following year.
- Station Eleven takes its name from a story within the story. Created by artist-turned-shipping exec Miranda Carroll, Dr. Eleven is a graphic novel (within the novel) that follows the adventures of its titular scientist aboard Station Eleven.
- Emily St. John Mandel re-imagined her hometown in Station Eleven. Much of the plot of Station Eleven unfurls in the Great Lakes region of post-pandemic North America.
- Station Eleven’s Star Trek allusion reflects Emily St. John Mandel’s personal belief. “I hesitate to call myself a ‘trekkie’ because that implies a level of fandom that’s just kind of beyond,” she told the Columbia Tribune in 2015.
- Station Eleven’s opening King Lear sequence was inspired by a real theater production. Nothing so tragic as the onstage death of an acting legend occurred in real life.
A whole lot has happened since Emily St. John Mandel published her literary science-fiction novel Station Eleven ten years ago this week—including certain global disruptions that made the book ...
- Rebecca Onion
Apr 4, 2017 · Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel is the "Velvet Elvis" of post-apocalyptic books, a surprisingly different form than usual with a style all its own. “Post-apocalyptic literary science fiction” was one way I have heard it described, and also “pastoral science fiction” and I here adopt both descriptions.
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This book is often considered Science Fiction, and it even won a sci-fi award, but, as it does not contain any new technologies, Mandel believes it is simply literary fiction. In a way, the novel defies genre, as most post-apocalyptic or dystopian novels deal with the chaos that immediately follows the cataclysm; Station Eleven is mostly set before or fifteen to twenty years after the Georgia ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Station Eleven ’s story is a familiar one: When the world is rocked by a devastating pandemic that kills most of the planet’s human population, the few survivors must learn to live in a ...
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Sep 12, 2014 · Emily St. John Mandel’s fourth novel, “Station Eleven,” begins with a spectacular end. ... several parallels between her science fiction stories and events in the novel itself ...
