Amy 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

Amy That was exactly my thought through the entire book. It was a pandemic not a meteorite or some other cataclysmic event. The energy grids, satellites, …moreThat was exactly my thought through the entire book. It was a pandemic not a meteorite or some other cataclysmic event. The energy grids, satellites, bundling material, etc would have been available. I could understand waiting a year or so before venturing out to be sure the virus had died off, but 20 years seemed completely unbelievable. (less)

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Robert Johnson Happy to guess you can't lift heavy machinery by yourself, mill heavy machinery by yourself, keep a power plant running by yourself, feed and cloth yo ...more
Jan 10, 2022 07:20PM · flag

Robert Johnson Oh yeah. Ebooks? Powered by what? coming from where?
Jan 10, 2022 07:21PM · flag

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