For some, a world without technology is a nightmare. But for Emily St. John Mandel, author of dystopian novel Station Eleven, it's a love letter.
"We have this incredible place with electricity, water that comes out of faucets...all of these incredible things that we take for granted, almost to the extent that we don't see them anymore," Mandel said at January's MashableReads book discussion. "One of the ways to write about something is to write about its absence."
To honor these modern miracles, Mandel took them away in Station Eleven, a tale about people who survived a deadly plague that wiped out 99% of the population. Read more...
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