BIG TIME
by Jordan Prosser
Releases 2 July 2024 through UQP.
Available for pre-order now through all good booksellers.
In a not-too-distant future Australia, the eastern states have become the world’s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention.
Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year abroad and reconnects with his band to record their highly anticipated second album. On a whirlwind tour of the east coast, he gets hooked on a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future. Rumour says, the more you take, the further you see… maybe even to the end of time.
Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music, wrapped up in an unforgettable, psychedelic road trip.
‘Big Time is pure punk. This insanely funny novel is a hallucinogenic rush: I wanted to inhale it and ride the high that comes in its wake. With riotous abandon, it dismantles the idea of time and takes a pitch-black look at a future that Australia may be stomping headlong towards. Where has Jordan Prosser been all my life? Now that I’ve found him, I am hooked.’
– Kris Kneen