Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché

(Penguin Random House, 2023)

Reviewed by Anne F. Wilson

“I don’t care if it’s elves, I just need to know why and how it’s elves.”

To those who (like me) only knew Helen MacDonald from their beautiful and deeply felt nature writing, Prophet will come as a surprise. Once you know that they write fanfic, it all suddenly makes sense. Prophet is a science fiction thriller that came out of a lockdown project between the two authors, who had not met in person before they started to play with the ideas that led to the book. It was originally intended to be a novella, but one thing led to another, and here we are.

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