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Station Eleven

Written by:	Emily St. John Mandel
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Genre(s):	Post-apocalyptic fiction
First published:	2014

The Other Wiki tells us that "Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. 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."

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 won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was also one of the books featured in the 2023 edition of Canada Reads, placing second.

Tropes used in Robkelk/sandbox/Works pages/Station Eleven include:

• Apocalypse How: Planetary Scope, Class 2. 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.
• Time Skip: The story skips two decades between the description of Year Zero and the bulk of the novel.