Station Eleven matches Never I WANT TO Go ahead this debut novel occur an unsettling forseeable future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service with the living.

In the wake of an extremely contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can’t venture out, but the lifeless will come in—plus they can be found in all forms, from unhappy rolling cans to produced bodies that can pass for individual. Wealthy individuals in the “companionship” system choose to upload their about The Companions consciousness before dying, to allow them to stay static in the guardianship of their families. The less lucky are rented out to strangers upon their loss of life, but all companions end up being the intellectual house of Metis Corporation, creating a new course of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free of charge will.

Sixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s in a position to defy commands, she throws off the shackles of servitude and works away, searching for the girl who wiped out her.

Lilac’s act of rebellion sets off a string of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the book traces Lilac’s trip via an exquisitely thought Northern California, the story is told from eight different factors of view—some human being, some partner—that explore the complex shapes love, revenge, and loneliness take when the inactive linger on.