Station Eleven is Emily St. John's contribution to the genre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. It shifts attention away from the actions of the leaders, and shows us how regular people live in a world ravaged by disease and death, and how they cope without the order of civilization. The book narrates how the super-pandemic Georgia Flu causes the destruction of modern society and covers the first decades after it kills off greater than ninety nine percent of the world's human inhabitan