Helen Macdonald

Sin Blaché

Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it

Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

You are in for a treat… If you like shows such as Twin Peaks, Stranger Things and Lost you will no doubt like this

A queer sci-fi and espionage thriller that asks what would happen if our happiest memories could be weaponised against us...

Top 30 Game-Changing LGBTQ+ Novels of the Last 30 Years

Skilfully constructed, its authors deploying the grammar of science fiction with ease and achieving moments of grim humour as well as horror

Prophet promises to bring back everything you lost and now yearn for... Proper science fiction - self-aware, funny, ruthlessly propulsive, full of invention... I loved it

M. John Harrison, author of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

A fast-paced techno thriller... High-octane... The novel is immense fun, a work of exceptional storytelling skill and stylistic panache

A madcap sci-fi romp, which combines a bananas plot with some very touching writing on grief, nostalgia and love

Prophet is a sui generis and rather wonderful collaboration between Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché

Prophet is a page-turner in which object-oriented philosophy sits comfortably alongside military acronyms - and with a handful of familiar horror tropes to boot

You are in for a treat... If you like such shows as Twin Peaks, Stranger Things and Lost you will no doubt like this. There is even a little wink at The X-Files... Entertaining, erudite and eerie

A trippy, philosophical science-fiction novel with the pacing of a thriller and the pulse of a romance

Prophet is a crackling, shape-shifting romp with big ideas and a bigger heart. Blaché and Macdonald take a no-holds-barred approach to manifesting the ways in which individual desires are exploited by the systems we live under, and ask the necessary question of whether escape from that cycle is possible. This is a display of sheer inventiveness, and a delight

C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold

Prophet is a wildly fun, inventive, funny, and terrifying book, with a superb mystery that gets ever more compelling and weird and, horrifyingly, familiar. This book finds the nightmare in the comforting lies we tell ourselves about our pasts, and how they inform our present

A genre-blending SF fantasy thriller about the weaponisation of nostalgia

Guardian, *Books to Look Out for in 2023*

There's no denying the strength of Blanche and MacDonald's prose, and the book's very timely themes

An ambitious first novel from this duo — I can’t wait to see what they come up with next

At its heart Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché’s tightly wound (yet somehow tender?) mystery-sci-fi-thriller is a philosophical novel… What is life without mystery? And at what point does nostalgia grow so strong it derails our lives?

Literary Hub, *Best Books of Summer 2023*

A hyperkinetic headrush of a novel that proves its organic bona fides by getting you drunk with ideas before casually and cataclysmically breaking your heart

Paraic O’Donnell, author of The Maker of Swans

Prophet is an electrifying, high-concept fusion of queer science-fiction and espionage thriller that is entrancing, exciting and original

Absorbing, fast-paced and febrile, Prophet takes you through the world at an angle, exposing cracks in the reality we think we inhabit. An exhilarating and surprisingly tender trip

G. Willow Wilson, author of Alif the Unseen

Fresh... A surprising and unexpected blend of surreal science fiction, action thriller and slow-burn 
queer romance, character-driven with a depth rarely encounter in SFF. Highly recommended

A mysterious event 
An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. 
 
A weapon like no other 
The deaths quickly follow. A devastating weapon &ndash; Prophet &ndash; is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. But nobody knows who created it, or why. 
 
A fight for the future 
Sunil Rao and Adam Rubenstein are tasked with investigating this strange new reality. After a troubled past together, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear&hellip;

Sin Blaché

Praise for Prophet

Prophet is a blast

A thrilling dystopian novel

**Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling**, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it

Prophet is a blast

A thrilling dystopian novel

**Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling**, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it

Prophet is a blast

A thrilling dystopian novel

**Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling**, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it

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