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?
In the autocratic Federal Republic of East Australia, music, science and political expression are policed with the threat of labour camps and execution. Julian Freeman is the bass player of The Acceptables, who were catapulted to stardom on the back of their breakout, inoffensive-pop first album, titled “Artificial Beaches on Every Mountain / Artificial Mountains on Every Beach”. He returns to Melbourne after a year abroad for the recording of their second.
