Do artists have a duty to speak truth to power? A wild new story of an autocratic Australia believes the future is ours to make
- Written by Joanne Anderton, PhD candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
Andy Pinaria/PexelsJordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, is a time-travelling, mind-bending love letter to art and creativity, set in a dystopian near future. It looks to the power of storytelling and asks: what difference can it possibly make?
In the autocratic Federal Republic of East Australia, music, science and political expression are...





