Blending dystopic soothsaying and raucous imagination, Prosser’s debut novel is a bit Philip K Dick, a bit Jennifer Egan and a bit entirely unique
man named JW Dunne once had several troubling dreams that came inexplicably true: his watch stopping at an exact time; a factory catching fire in Paris; a volcano erupting on the island of Martinique. These prophetic experiences urged him to write, a 1927 book that – though its scientific hypotheses were entertained but roundly rejected – piqued the interest of literary figures from Jorge Luis Borges to HG Wells.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningof Big Time is the 2040s in a divided Australia. A guarded wall cleaves the nation between the free western states and the autocratically governed Free Republic of Eastern Australia, where the DID maintains an oppressive chokehold: culture is redacted; the state-controlled AusNet has replaced the internet; nonconformists disappear into work camps or are executed.
Visually, it is all very movie-like, which isn’t a surprise considering Prosser – the only person alive whose CV lists being a voice actor in Happy Feet 2 and a director of a La Porchetta commercial – is also a screenwriter. You can sense this in Big Time’s measured pace, coordination between myriad characters and attention to mise-en-scène.
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