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Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven opens on the night famous actor Arthur Leander dies onstage in Toronto while performing King Lear, the same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. Twenty years later, Kirsten, an actress, performs Shakespeare with the Traveling Symphony among the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. Then the troupe encounters a violent prophet. The novel asks: if civilization were lost, what would you preserve, and how far would you go to protect it?