

After watching all 10 episodes of the masterful adaptation, now streaming its first three episodes on HBO Max, I remain in it now. I was in the latter camp when I read Station Eleven in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Others will forge ahead-if not enticed by the premise, then at least intrigued by the possibility a fictional apocalypse can shed light on our current reality. Faced with a story about a pandemic that sweeps the globe and ends life as we know it, some will understandably balk at the prospect of reliving the last two years. Station Eleven, the show, will likely earn the same polarized reaction as Station Eleven, the book-within-the-show. The other rejects civilization and its trappings altogether, becoming an isolated explorer of his own. One takes it as a lesson in the enduring power of art to anchor us through trying times. As adults, the kids have entirely different takeaways from their mutual influence, the saga of a lonely astronaut marooned on a space station.
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Only five copies were ever printed, but through a series of coincidences, two make their way into the hands of children who survive a catastrophic flu and then grow up in its aftermath. John Mandel and published in 2014-there exists a graphic novel, also called Station Eleven. In the miniseries Station Eleven-and before it, the novel Station Eleven, written by Emily St.
