Just finished Station Eleven - a semi-fresh take on the post-apocalypse genre. Some passages really knocked me for a loop in the way they detailed the collapse from a few key players' perspectives.
(Super fast and fatal flu epidemic gets the call in this one)
A little slow at times with pre-collapse flashbacks but they add up to the point of the book - at least I think the point. "If it all goes to ****, which memories will you choose to keep, and which will you avoid in order to mentally survive."
Highly recommended if you're into this stuff.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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