BLUE GIANT
Published by UQP (Australia) and Dead Ink Books (UK).
Available now through all good booksellers.
Planet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.
Abby always believed she was destined for great things. But her dream career as an industry-disrupting fashion designer went up in smoke, and her aspirations to become a world-renowned yogi and/or save the endangered tigers proved equally fruitless. She’s in her early thirties, suffering the unbearable burdens of adulthood and anonymity, when she wakes up after a drunken bender with an all-new, all-consuming purpose in life: to be the first person on Mars.
Perfect timing – Danish tech entrepreneur Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet. Abby knows this is it: her last-ditch bid for fame and glory. And if she can’t be humanity’s saviour … she’ll settle for being its martyr.
Blue Giant is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism – a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.
‘A paean to millennial ennui, manic delusion and the destructive false promises of the capitalist machine … brimming with satire and glorious trainwreck characters.’
– Siang Lu
‘Savagely precise and shockingly funny … captures the absurdity, brutality and sheer banality of life on a world on the brink better than anything I’ve ever read.’
– Sarah Walker
BIG TIME
Published by UQP, Dead Ink Books, Mattioli 1885, Azbooka-Atticus.
Available now through all good booksellers.
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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.’
– Kris Kneen
‘This debut, with its tribute to pop music’s power to change the world, is a rollicking ride told by a master storyteller.’
– The Age