[저자] 조던 프로서
소설가, 시나리오 작가. 2022년 피터 케리 단편소설상(Peter Carey Short Story Award)을 수상했으며, 장편 소설 데뷔작 『Big Time』은 ABIAs '올해의 신인 작가상(Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year)' 최종 후보와 오렐리스상(Aurealis Award) 최우수 SF 소설상 후보에 올랐다. 『Big Time』은 영국, 이탈리아, 러시아에 계약되었다.
작가의 말
“통제 불가능한 자본주의와 극단적인 개인주의가, 인류의 미래를 위해 반드시 필요한 공동체 정신과 정면으로 충돌하는 지금 이 시대를 풍자적으로 그리고 싶었습니다. 동시에 이 작품은 삶의 의미를 찾으려는 한 여성의 이야기이기도 합니다. 결함투성이인 애비가 어떤 수단을 써서라도 삶의 목적을 되찾으려 하는 마지막 몸부림이 독자들에게 깊이 공감되기를 바랍니다."
[리뷰]
‘Blue Giant is a paean to millennial ennui, manic delusion and the destructive false promises of the capitalist machine. Brimming with satire and glorious trainwreck characters, Jordan Prosser has knocked it out of the park, straight into the stratosphere.’
- SIANG LU, 2025 Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Ghost Cities
‘Blue Giant is social commentary as narrative and a desperate hero’s journey for millennials through the faux culture of the self-destructive Anthropocene, making it a sharp, unsettling work for readers of contemporary Australian literary fiction.’
- Books+Publishing
‘Blue Giant is an intoxicating trip, elegantly consumed with the idea that there’s something better for us out there, somewhere, if we could only escape ourselves. Jordan Prosser draws friendship, in all its romance and misery, so authentically that it sometimes sucks the air from your chest.’
- SINEAD STUBBINS, author of Stinkbug and In My Defence, I Have No Defence
‘Jordan Prosser writes with savage wit and startling tenderness. Blue Giant skewers tech-utopian salvation stories while never losing sight of the messy, bruised people caught in the blast radius. A blistering send-up of billionaires, media spectacle and the cult of reinvention, with an emotional core that lands hard. I tore through Blue Giant and kept thinking about it long after the last page.’
- SAMI SHAH, award-winning comedian and writer
‘Jordan Prosser has rendered a triumphant fantasy of the human race, where the people around us are so specific and vivid that you just want to leave them all behind. Blue Giant is beautiful and bitter, powered by vinegar but very much lit by the stars. And Abby Horne is a heroine for the ages, but especially our degraded age, and I for one would follow her to Mars.’
- RONNIE SCOTT, award-winning author of The Adversary
‘Savagely precise and shockingly funny, Blue Giant captures the absurdity, brutality and sheer banality of life on a world on the brink better than anything I’ve ever read. This book is destined to be one of the definitive millennial novels.’
- SARAH WALKER, award-winning author of The First Time I Thought I Was Dying
‘Like a series of Search Party showrun by Jonathan Franzen, Blue Giant is at once a glorious, mostly comic riot of bad behaviour and worse decisions, an enviably clearsighted broadside on frontier capitalism, and a poignant elegy for a generation so inverted by climate collapse and the rise of technofascism that even planetary relocation presents as a form of mediated nostalgia. It's terrific.’
- MATT GREENE, author of The Definitions
‘That the novel shifts from an acidic dissection of contemporary mores to contemplate the yawning dark heart of living in the 21st century, and does so effortlessly, shows what gifts Prosser has. Did I say Blue Giant is howlingly brilliant? It’s that too.’
- RISHA DASTIDAR, 2023 Laurel Prize longlisted author of Neptune’s Projects | 
