Similar in premise to Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play, but more novelistic. Station Eleven could be the basis for a good graphic novel; but maybe I'm just thinking this because of the graphic novel within the novel, which makes me think of Watchmen, which had a great comic within the comic. It is kind of a weird experience to be reading about a pandemic that sweeps away the world we know during a time when a pandemic is accelerating almost all the pain & injustice of the world we live in. In a way, it's easier for the imagination to imagine a world that's catastrophically transformed than it is to imagine the way forward in our real world. At the end of the book I was left with 2 questions: where are the bicycles (subquestion: did they run through their stock of tires in 20 years)? & Why is no one wearing armor or at least a helmet?