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Alan Bray
- Jun 23, 2022
- 3 min
What A Coincidence Bumping Into You Like This - Station Eleven
Coincidence plays a significant role in Station Eleven. We’ve talked about coincidence before in regard to other novels—let’s plunge in...
Alan Bray
- Jun 16, 2022
- 4 min
Once More Into The Abyss
Last time, I said that the Dr. Eleven graphic comic, created by Miranda, is so central to Station Eleven that it deserves its own post....
Alan Bray
- Jun 9, 2022
- 4 min
Science Fiction? - Station Eleven
Narratives are a balance of mimetic, thematic, and synthetic threads. Mimetic threads are those that present convincing characters and...
Alan Bray
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
You Got The Time? - Station Eleven
How is time handled in Station Eleven? I can say straight off that time is discontinuous and episodic, two terms we’ve looked at before....
Alan Bray
- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
What If Thinking - Station Eleven
One of the central questions Station Eleven asks its readers is: what would you do in a world without technology? No electricity, no...
Alan Bray
- May 19, 2022
- 5 min
Station Eleven
This week, a new novel, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. This acclaimed book was published in 2014 and has been adapted into a...