Julie answers “does it bother anyone that in the 20 years...”

Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:

does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time

Julie We don't know that someone didn't do as you suggest. Perhaps someone four hundred miles away did. Maybe things are completely different in other place…moreWe don't know that someone didn't do as you suggest. Perhaps someone four hundred miles away did. Maybe things are completely different in other places beyond the reach of the remaining communications technology. We're only seeing a tiny slice of the world, which is all that our characters can have in view. (I think this uncertainty is part of the point.).

I also think (being an optimist) that what you describe will happen with increasing frequency as the world moves forward. You can see, by the end of the novel, that it is starting to happen. It just takes time. Perhaps the author is making things move too slowly, or maybe you're thinking things would move faster than is likely. I suppose we don't really know and, with luck, we never will. (less)

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