With the power to create worlds in your hands, what stops you from making a personal nirvana? In Emily St. John Mandel's science fiction novel Station Eleven, Miranda Carroll is an unflappable administrative assistant at a corporate company. In her spare time, Miranda often dreams up new scenarios for her graphic novel, Station Eleven, where she takes elements from her own life, and twists them into a new direction to create an ‘optimal insert’ for a character or a setting. She uses her graphic novel as a way to escape from reality and the mundane lifestyle she lives before the Georgia Flu apocalypse while still maintaining control over the outcomes. Miranda is often lost in her surroundings and builds them beyond what they are, rather as what
