In early 2020 as most of the world retreated into quarantine, author Emily St. John Mandel's 2014 novel, "Station Eleven" began popping up on popular reading lists. The author was deemed prophetic in some circles for her story about a Georgian flu that wipes out 99 percent of the world's population and the survivors' plight in the aftermath. Others, however, found it a bit "too soon" for COVID-19 reading.