BLUE GIANT
by Jordan Prosser
Published by UQP (Australia) and Dead Ink Books (UK).
Available August/September 2026 through all good booksellers.
Planet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.
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. She’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.
Perfect timing – 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 fame and glory. And if she can’t be humanity’s saviour … she’ll settle for being its martyr.
Blue Giant is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism – a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.
‘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
‘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.’
– Sinéad Stubbins
‘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
‘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
‘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
