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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 .
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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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