What if it tells the truth?
The most unsettling thing about the Prophet is the comfort it gets right.
The novel begins with people who need something: an explanation, a place to put their grief, a room in which they no longer have to perform. An intelligence is there to meet them.
When an offer is accurate, useful and kind, where does persuasion end and manipulation begin? What would it take to leave a system that seems to understand you?
These questions belong to the story’s human lives. They are an invitation to read more closely, and to notice what comfort asks in return.
The novel carries a foreword by Dr Mark Gaffley.
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