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In John Morrissey's hotly anticipated second book Bird Deity, human settlers plunder an alien world, in a narrative that is at once disconcerting and eerily familiar. Jordan Prosser's Blue Giant takes a similar satirical swing, following a chaotic, burnt-out millennial who decides that escaping Earth for Mars might finally be her destiny.
As tech billionaires climb aboard space ships and submarines in an ever-growing quest for wealth and power, these two astute authors offer us much-needed commentary on colonialism and human greed. Join them in conversation with ABC Radio Sydney’s Rae Johnston, a multi-award-winning journalist with a focus on the geekier side of life.
John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His debut, Firelight, won an Aurealis Award and a Queensland Literary Award, and in 2024 he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. Bird Deity is his latest novel.
Jordan Prosser won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022. His debut novel, Big Time, 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, while the UK edition was longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. His latest book is Blue Giant.
Rae Johnston is a Wiradyuri and Greek multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster who hosts ABC Radio National's Download This Show, ABC Radio Sydney's Saturday Mornings (broadcasting state-wide) and iHeartRadio's Weird Tech podcast. Rae travels the country as a TV host on NITV's Going Places with Ernie Dingo, ABC's Back Roads and SBS' The Secret DNA Of Us. Rae currently serves on the boards of both the Telstra Foundation and Swinburne University of Technology.
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