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For a person whose genre of choice is historical fiction, I have sure read my share of science fiction/fantasy this year and the book I finished last night is one such book. It is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This novel is about the unraveling of lives and the ability or inability to move forward. The book moves back and forth between life as we know it and the struggles of people moving through their particular lives and some of the same individuals after a flu epidemic ends life as we know it on earth. It is a story of the apocalypse but it is a lot more than that. I brings the meanings of Shakespeare's plays into real life, mirroring a production of King Lear in the world as we know it with its concept of regrets in our lives piling up and a traveling production company who performs Shakespeare's plays and classical music throughout the post apocalypse world. The banner on the wagon of the production company is a line from Star Trek Voyager episode 122, "Survival is insufficient". It is one of the those books that will stay with me for a long time. Maybe always. Please click on the title and the author's name above to follow the links for more information and enjoy the video that follows.
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