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Station Eleven
A pandemic novel that is actually about beauty. Mandel asks what survives when civilisation falls and the answer is art, memory, and connection.
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Survival Is Insufficient
Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel moves between multiple timelines: the night a famous actor dies on a Toronto stage just as a flu pandemic begins to end civilisation, and twenty years later as a travelling Shakespeare company moves through the remnants of the Great Lakes region. The people in both timelines are connected by a self-published graphic novel called Station Eleven. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an acclaimed HBO series in 2021.


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Reading Station Eleven
3 Vivid
3 Eerie
4 Threatening
3 Melancholy
4 Resonant
5 Hopeful

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Survival is insufficient.


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Mandel published the novel in 2014, six years before the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit in 2020 it became one of the most discussed books in the world. Sales spiked dramatically.
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The motto of the Travelling Symphony in the novel, Survival is insufficient, is taken directly from a Star Trek Voyager episode. Mandel is an unashamed science fiction fan and placed the reference deliberately.


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