TY - GEN AU - Mandel,Emily StJohn TI - Station eleven SN - 9781447268970 AV - PR9199.4.M3347 S73 2014 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Time travel KW - Fiction KW - LCSH KW - Dystopias KW - Epidemics KW - Actors KW - Regression (Civilization) KW - Anti-utopias KW - Utopias KW - LCGFT KW - Stories KW - Tales KW - Literature N1 - "First published in the USA 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf. First published in the UK 2014 by Picador. First published in paperback 2014 by Picador." -- Title page verso; Includes discussion quests N2 - What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Traveling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect ER -