{"title":"Jordan Prosser","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJordan Prosser is an Australian author and filmmaker living in Naarm\/Melbourne. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian, The Age and Australian Book Review, while his short films and screenplays have won multiple international accolades. His short story Eleuterio Cabrera’s Beautiful Game won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022. His debut novel, ‘Big Time’, released in 2024, was shortlisted for the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"big-time-jordan-prosser","title":"Big Time — Jordan Prosser","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the not-too-distant future, Australia’s eastern states have become the world’s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punished with indefinite detention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJulian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas and reconnects with his bandmates as they prepare to record their hotly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMeanwhile, the outside world is gripped by an escalating pandemic of “extreme coincidences” and temporal anomalies: identical football matches played sixty years apart, cancer patients reporting visions of the afterlife, and other world-altering events that all point back to the Acceptables’ mysterious second – and final – album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBig Time\u003c\/strong\u003e is an addictive debut about different forms of time travel: the people in our lives, the art we make together, the moments and movements that will live on long after we’re gone. It’s a psychedelic road trip across a dystopian Australia, through a world on the brink of temporal collapse, and out to the furthest reaches of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Big Time is probably the most adrenaline-infused book I’ve read in a long time. Cinematic in scope, boldly imaginative in delivery, and worryingly close to the bone on its apparently ‘speculative’ aspects, I couldn’t put this one down.’ - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.anikopress.com\/book-reviews\/big-time-by-jordan-prosser\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAniko Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Smart and funny and big and speedy – you can almost see it playing out on the screen as you are reading.’ - \u003cem\u003eKate Mildenhall\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"p1\"\u003e‘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.’ - \u003cem\u003eKris Kneen\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanprosser.com\/\"\u003eJordan Prosser\u003c\/a\u003e is a writer, filmmaker and performer from Victoria. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, and his short films and screenplays have won multiple international accolades. His short story ‘Eleuterio Cabrera’s Beautiful Game’ won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022 and was published in Meanjin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Ink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52901449793873,"sku":null,"price":8.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/files\/BigTimeCover.jpg?v=1776245248"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/collections\/JORDAN_PROSSER.png?v=1772208490","url":"https:\/\/deadinkbooks.com\/collections\/jordan-prosser.oembed","provider":"Dead Ink Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}