Floods, fires and volcanoes

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

New Scientist23 October 2026, 09:00 UTC

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

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