Plt;bPgt;Planet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.Plt;/bPgt; 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. SheP#8217;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 life: to be the first person on Mars.Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt; Perfect timing P#8211; Danish tech entrepreneur Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet. Abby knows this is it: her last-ditch bid for purpose and glory. And if she canP#8217;t be humanityP#8217;s saviour . . . . sheP#8217;ll settle for being its martyr.Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;Blue GiantPlt;/iPgt; is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism P#8211; a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.

Details

ISBN13: 9780702269240
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 288
Edition:
Publication Date: 04 Aug 2026
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication City, Country: St Lucia, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 22.6(H)x15.2(L)x2.1(W)338
Weight (gm): 338

Author Biography

Jordan Prosser is an author and screenwriter based in Naarm/Melbourne. He won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022. His debut novel, Plt;iPgt;Big TimePlt;/iPgt;, 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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