Tag: Station Eleven
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Favorite Books of 2010s: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) An aging actor drops dead of a heart attack on stage, an omen for a sweeping flu pandemic that will decimate the world’s population within weeks. Station Eleven does something that I…
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Top Five Reads of the Year
Here are my five favorite reads of the year, a nice mix of old classics and new discoveries. Please post your favorite reads of the year in the comments. (These are books read during the past year and enjoyed, but not necessarily published in 2015.) Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (my essay on a kinder, gentler…
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A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Originally posted on Sci Femme: This essay also discusses Into the Forest (Jean Hegland; 1996); A Gift Upon the Shore (M.K. Wren; 1990); and Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin; 1985), among various other stalwarts of the post-apocalyptic sub-genre. There will be spoilers for these books. Pop quiz, hotshot. It’s the apocalypse: What do you do?…
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Recommended Reading: Station Eleven
This month, I’m highly recommending the post-apocalyptic novel, Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Station Eleven does something that I hadn’t thought was possible: it offers something new and exciting in the post-apocalyptic genre. I have read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, and I was getting burned out on them. It seemed like there was nothing…
Shannon Turlington 