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Helen Macdonald (Author) Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots. Sin Blache (Author) Sin Blache is an author and musician. They have been writing horror and sci-fi stories all their life. Prophet is their first novel. Born in California, they live in the Northwest of Ireland and can be found obsessing over obscure folk instruments, being an ambivalent saviour to feral cats, and playing too many video games.
It's a fabulous book! ... It's present day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel with real people you can care about. And it's a page-turner -- Neil Gaiman, author of CORALINE Prophet is a blast * Sunday Times * A thrilling dystopian novel -- 10 New Books You Should Read in August * TIME * 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 * Scotsman * 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 * Sunday Telegraph * 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 -- Phil Klay, author of MISSIONARIES A genre-blending SF fantasy thriller about the weaponisation of nostalgia * Guardian, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * 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 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 Bold, brilliant. Prophet is hypnotically enthralling, frightening, fearless, funny and full of heart. I loved it -- Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of WE BEGIN AT THE END Prophet is an electrifying, high-concept fusion of queer science-fiction and espionage thriller that is entrancing, exciting and original * Attitude * There's no denying the strength of Blanche and MacDonald's prose, and the book's very timely themes. Let's hope that this is the start of an ongoing collaboration * SFX *
