{"product_id":"9781915368881","title":"Big Time","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Prosser, Jordan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 4 September 2025 by Dead Ink Books in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 29 | 322g\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003e Julian 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\u003cp\u003e Meanwhile, 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\u003cp\u003e Big Time 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","brand":"Prosser, Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775753519288,"sku":"9781915368881","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781915368881.jpg?v=1757427464","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781915368881","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}