![]() ![]() ![]() What do you do? If you know you’re the last of your kind, and nothing you do matters or will be remembered once you’re gone. And how easily the smallest thing could push it over the edge. I wanted to tell a story about how vulnerable life is, when the human race is an endangered species on the brink of extinction. I just wanted to write about humanity in isolation. So as a writer, I didn’t want to write a dystopia full of villains and evil governments (there’s enough of that in real life). As a reader I feel like there are so many stories that hadn’t been told in that kind of setting – after the angst of the apocalypse, when you’re not necessarily trying to rebuild the world but live a good, happy life in the time you have left. I read Station Eleven a few years ago, and really came away from that novel with a sense of just how much there still is to live for when you’ve lost everything. ![]()
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