{
  "id": 16941872,
  "title": "Our verdict on Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Not her best book",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/our-verdict-on-exit-party-by-emily-st-john-mandel-not-her-best-book",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Scientist",
    "slug": "new-scientist",
    "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595814-our-verdict-on-exit-party-by-emily-st-john-mandel-not-her-best-book/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the Station Eleven author's latest speculative novel. While they found lots of things to praise, there were criticisms of the pace of this near-future-set story, says Alison Flood",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}