Big Time
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
In a not-too-distant future Australia, the eastern states have become the world' s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas and reconnects with his bandmates to record their highly anticipated second album. On their 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. Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music, wrapped up in an unforgettable, psychedelic road trip.
Customer Reviews
Trippy philosophical jaunt in dystopian Australia
Time travel. Near-future dystopias. Existential musings. In the words of Julie Andrews, these are a few of my favourite things. Add anomalies, compelling albeit unlikeable characters against a gritty and overly politicised Australian landscape sometime in the near future, and a mysterious new drug designed to get you there and you have yourself a winner in my opinion! I loved this book, it was gripping, funny, enlightening and - dare I say it - eye opening.