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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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Jan 01, 2000
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Narrator (in the voice of Rod Serling): There is a literary dimension beyond that which is known to book critics. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between sci-fi and literary fiction, and it lies between the pit of our fears and the summit of our knowledge. This is the dimension of imaginative writing that is uneasy about getting labele…

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