Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’

The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New Scientist Book Club

  Science/Technology   Oct 26, 2026   0   5  Add to Reading List
Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’












Emily St. John Mandel, best known for her prescient flu pandemic novel Station Eleven, joined the New Scientist Book Club to talk about her latest book, the science-fiction novel Exit Party. Emily discussed everything from why she is compelled to write about the aftermath of disaster – this latest book takes place in a near-future US, after a civil war – to how hard it was to keep ahead of the US news cycle as she wrote.

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