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“Prophet is the first one on my list because I just think it’s so extraordinary…It opens with the most wonderful scene: an American diner has appeared in a field in the south of England overnight, for no apparent reason. Two people who are involved with the CIA are brought over from a nearby American airbase in order to investigate what this might be; they think it might be something to do with the airbase, but they’ve honestly got no idea. And when they come close to the diner, they realise that it’s not a real diner – it looks like one but there’s stuff in it that doesn’t work, everything looks a little bit wrong. After this instance, other things start appearing all over the place: objects, places, even animals. And it’s really intriguing. But what’s really wonderful about it are the two main characters. One of them is a very austere ex-soldier type, who uses words like ‘sub-optimal’. The other one has what he cheerfully describes as a ‘terrorist beard’, and gets into fights for fun, and is on an amazing rainbow of drugs.” Read more...
The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels
Natasha Pulley, Novelist
