(Publication summary)
Jordan Prosser in Conversation
Jacinta Parsons
(interviewer),
2024
28898538
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'In this episode, Jordan Prosser, author of Big Time, in conversation.
'The book is set in a not-too distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music and a satire about art in the face of entropy, all wrapped up in an unforgettable road trip.' (Production summary)
'In Big Time, the debut novel from screenwriter and director Jordan Prosser, so-called Australia has been split in two: the fascist and puritan Federal Republic of East Australia (FREA) and the capitalist Western Republic of Australia (WRA). This is a world where renegade chemists in the FREA’s far north Cooksland have created a drug called F that lets the user experience the next few minutes, hours, or weeks of the future, as determined by their body’s receptivity. Due to the FREA’s closed borders, F is rarely found beyond them, yet the wider world must still reckon with anomalies in time that F has potentially triggered: incredible coincidences that cannot be written off as merely that, but as possibly something more sinister and catastrophic.'(Introduction)
'Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, is a time-travelling, mind-bending love letter to art and creativity, set in a dystopian near future. It looks to the power of storytelling and asks: what difference can it possibly make?'
'Jordan Prosser’s debut novel offers mind-bending visions of the future. But beneath its rock’n’roll exterior lies a satire of contemporary Australian conservatism.'
'If you think Australia’s looking pretty cooked, wait until you get a load of the retro-fascist future Jordan Prosser has fever dreamt for the “lucky” country in Big Time, which reads as if he’s chopped up a bunch of Bret Easton Ellis novels and snorted the lot, followed by a bump of J. G. Ballard.' (Introduction)
'Jordan Prosser’s much-touted first novel sometimes flies off its own tracks, but is nonetheless a very impressive debut.'
'Given the global resurgence of interest in compounds such as psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca, it is a wonder more contemporary novelists have not turned to psychedelic experience for inspiration. It is, after all, hard to think of the golden age of psychedelics – roughly the mid-1960s to mid-1970s – without recalling the trippy, Zeitgeist-capturing literature it produced, including Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) and Tom Wolfe’s (highly fictionalised) Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).' (Introduction)
'Jordan Prosser’s debut novel offers mind-bending visions of the future. But beneath its rock’n’roll exterior lies a satire of contemporary Australian conservatism.'
'Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, is a time-travelling, mind-bending love letter to art and creativity, set in a dystopian near future. It looks to the power of storytelling and asks: what difference can it possibly make?'
Jordan Prosser in Conversation
Jacinta Parsons
(interviewer),
2024
28898538
2024
single work
podcast
interview
'In this episode, Jordan Prosser, author of Big Time, in conversation.
'The book is set in a not-too distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music and a satire about art in the face of entropy, all wrapped up in an unforgettable road trip.' (Production summary)
