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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Start date: June 1, 2021

Finish date: June 30, 2021

Discussion: MODERN / POPULAR READS

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May 07, 2018 Mike rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction

In Station Eleven, a variant on the avian flu wipes out most of the world's population. The novel follows the lives of a few of the survivors twenty years after the catastrophe. Most are from a traveling symphony that performs Shakespeare at the settlements it visits.

The survivors are all linked by their relationship with one man: deceased actor Arthur Leander, who passed of a heart attack the night the flu started spreading.

Most post-apocalyptic stories I come across are action-packed. In those ...more

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May 14, 2018 Denise rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, audiobooks, contemporary, dystopian

Exceptionally well crafted, character driven story.

4.5-4.75 Rating
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Jan 04, 2015 Kai Coates rated it liked it

Underwhelmed, but had potential. I read this book as part of a "genre-bending" task and several reviews mentioned how this book managed to straddle the border between sci-fi and literary fiction to the point that people wondered if genre fiction was even a thing anymore. To which I will say, "That's BS and here's why":

This a competently written book. I believe it easily falls into the more literary fiction "side" of things than sci-fi, but I can see how people who usually only read sci-fi would ...more

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Jan 19, 2015 Dana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: dystopias, science-fiction, disease, shakespeare, strong-characters, flashbacks

Extremely well-written, character-driven, dystopian fiction with great use of flashbacks. So refreshing to experience a post-apocalyptic world not brought about by zombies!

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