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Blue Giant

Brief Description
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.... Read More
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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 lifeβ€”to be the first person on Mars.

Perfect timingβ€”Danish tech entrepreneur Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet. Abby knows this is itβ€”her last-ditch bid for purpose 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 optimismβ€”a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702269240

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Jordan Prosser is an author and screenwriter based in Naarm/Melbourne. He won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022. His debut novel, Big Time, was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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