User:Robkelk/sandbox/Works pages/Station Eleven

needs a description, which has to wait until I've read more of the book... and I'm finding the Year Zero scenes a bit of a slog

The novel was adapted into a ten-episode miniseries in 2021.

Station Eleven was one of the books featured in the 2023 edition of Canada Reads. It lasted through the entire week, placing second.


 * Apocalypse How: The story begins in Year Zero with a pandemic that kills off over 99 per cent of humanity. Civilization takes a major hit because there aren't enough people to maintain an industrialized society, but luxuries like museums and touring acting troupes still exist.
 * Fictional Document: The titular "Station Eleven", written before Year Zero, provides a distraction at a key moment.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: Downplayed. The novel was written a half-decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, which thankfully did not kill 99% of the population of Earth.
 * Paparazzi: A crowd of them wait outside the theatre during Year Zero, on the off-chance something interesting happens. The lead actor's heart attack qualifies as interesting; none of them knew about the pandemic.