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This actor, playing Arthur Leander, dies onstage during a production of King Lear, beginning the novel's chain of events.
Who is Arthur Leander?
This pandemic, commonly called the Georgia Flu, wipes out most of the world's population.
What is the Georgia Flu?
The Traveling Symphony uses this phrase as its motto.
What is "Survival is insufficient"?
This former paparazzo becomes one of the main members of the Travelling Symphony and later writes the Dr. Eleven comic.
Who is Kirsten Raymonde?
The Travelling Symphony travels around the Great Lakes region, performing these two types of entertainment.
What are Shakespeare's plays and orchestral music?
This group travels from settlement to settlement performing Shakespeare and music after the collapse of civilization.
Who are the Traveling Symphony?
This young boy travels with the Prophet and is later revealed to have a connection to Arthur.
Who is Tyler Leander?
This fictional comic book series becomes extremely important to both Kirsten and the Prophet.
What is Station Eleven?
The Museum of Civilization is located in this unusual post-pandemic location.
What is an airport?
Arthur's first wife is an actress who later becomes a professor and helps establish the Museum of Civilization.
Who is Miranda Carroll?
This abandoned airport becomes a permanent settlement and one of the major settings of the novel.
What is Severn City Airport?
This dangerous religious leader controls a group of followers and becomes one of the novel's main antagonistic figures.
Who is the Prophet?
This former Jeevan friend becomes a doctor and runs a hospital in the settlement at the Severn City Airport.
Who is Dr. Jeevan Chaudhary?
Kirsten keeps these objects from Arthur's life as important personal possessions.
What are Arthur's photographs and the Station Eleven comics?
The novel frequently moves between the pre-pandemic world and this period, approximately twenty years after the collapse.
What is the post-pandemic world?