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Enormity
Jack is the most famous rockstar in the world… he’s just not from this planet.
Before joining NASA’s space programme, Jack had dreams of a career as a professional musician. When a deep space mission goes awry, he crashes on an alien planet. Jack discovers that his new world is inhabited by a race of humans that have evolved in parallel to those on Earth. He picks up a guitar and performs the most wondrous rock songs of his home planet. Neil Young. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. Superstardom beckons as audiences around the globe revere Jack and his apparent songwriting abilities. He basks in the boundless glow of a hedonistic dream world. But Jack soon learns that his lie will have sinister consequences.
This remarkable debut novel, released in three parts by renowned Australian entertainment journalist Nick Milligan, is a thrilling ride through a nightmarish, darkly comical and highly original tale that combines elements of horror, science fiction, music industry satire and erotica.
Enormity will weave a dark magic over you – even beyond its shocking conclusion.
Before joining NASA’s space programme, Jack had dreams of a career as a professional musician. When a deep space mission goes awry, he crashes on an alien planet. Jack discovers that his new world is inhabited by a race of humans that have evolved in parallel to those on Earth. He picks up a guitar and performs the most wondrous rock songs of his home planet. Neil Young. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. Superstardom beckons as audiences around the globe revere Jack and his apparent songwriting abilities. He basks in the boundless glow of a hedonistic dream world. But Jack soon learns that his lie will have sinister consequences.
This remarkable debut novel, released in three parts by renowned Australian entertainment journalist Nick Milligan, is a thrilling ride through a nightmarish, darkly comical and highly original tale that combines elements of horror, science fiction, music industry satire and erotica.
Enormity will weave a dark magic over you – even beyond its shocking conclusion.
- GenresScience Fiction
212 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 24, 2013
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110 people want to read
About the author
Nick Milligan
9 books18 followersNick Milligan has been a force in the Australian music industry for over two decades, whether it be as an influential freelance music journalist or his recent years working in festival promotion.
Milligan's literary career officially began in 2014 with the release of his debut novel Enormity. The sprawling epic is a scathing and dark rumination on religion, the music industry and celebrity worship.
He then published the short story collection Tomcat Feelings in 2017.
In 2024 Milligan released the novella Guardian.
Since 2002 Milligan has profiled some of the world’s most influential artists. He has been published in Frankie, Rolling Stone, YEN, Smash Hits, Hotpress, Dazed and Confused, and Reverb Magazine. He was the editor-in-chief of Reverb Magazine, the music and film editor of YEN Magazine and has worked as a sub-editor at YEN, Dazed and Confused, Frankie and The Maitland Mercury.
Milligan has interviewed (amongst many others) Matt Damon, Bret Easton Ellis, Dylan Moran, Ice Cube, Slash, Rhys Darby, Bill Bailey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Frank Black (Pixies), Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Glen Hansard, Gotye, GZA, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode), Daniel Johns (Silverchair), Dweezil Zappa, Ian Gillan (Deep Purple), Pete Townshend (The Who), Kimbra, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Huey Lewis, The Presets, Empire Of The Sun, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Marilyn Manson, Courtney Taylor-Taylor (Dandy Warhols), Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Paul McDermott, Dave Hughes, John Mayall, Joe Perry (Aerosmith), James Mercer (The Shins), Tori Amos, Amanda Palmer, Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton, Sarah Blasko and Kings Of Leon.
Milligan's literary career officially began in 2014 with the release of his debut novel Enormity. The sprawling epic is a scathing and dark rumination on religion, the music industry and celebrity worship.
He then published the short story collection Tomcat Feelings in 2017.
In 2024 Milligan released the novella Guardian.
Since 2002 Milligan has profiled some of the world’s most influential artists. He has been published in Frankie, Rolling Stone, YEN, Smash Hits, Hotpress, Dazed and Confused, and Reverb Magazine. He was the editor-in-chief of Reverb Magazine, the music and film editor of YEN Magazine and has worked as a sub-editor at YEN, Dazed and Confused, Frankie and The Maitland Mercury.
Milligan has interviewed (amongst many others) Matt Damon, Bret Easton Ellis, Dylan Moran, Ice Cube, Slash, Rhys Darby, Bill Bailey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Frank Black (Pixies), Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Glen Hansard, Gotye, GZA, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode), Daniel Johns (Silverchair), Dweezil Zappa, Ian Gillan (Deep Purple), Pete Townshend (The Who), Kimbra, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Huey Lewis, The Presets, Empire Of The Sun, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Marilyn Manson, Courtney Taylor-Taylor (Dandy Warhols), Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Paul McDermott, Dave Hughes, John Mayall, Joe Perry (Aerosmith), James Mercer (The Shins), Tori Amos, Amanda Palmer, Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton, Sarah Blasko and Kings Of Leon.
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October 14, 2018
I'll begin by saying I have never read anything like this book before nor heard of anything remotely similar.
Jack is an interesting character to say the least. A typical rock star hooked on sex, drugs, and rock n roll. The image I had created in my head was a Michael Hutchinson, smooth with the ladies, loved to party, sexy as hell with the voice to match.
In the beginning we know very little of Jack's past so I don't think I was particularly liking him but as the story evolves we start to get flashbacks into Jack's past and how he came to be and that's when his vulnerability and more sensitive side appears.
Astronaut turned musician? Jack is making the most of a bad situation, what could have been life ending situation. He knows he can't go home so decides to become a musician.
That is a story in itself.
But Nick Milligan takes this story to a deeper, darker level that I wasn't even expecting.
The one thing I would have wanted from this book is to have explored Jacks personality and his background a little more earlier on in the story.
Jack is an interesting character to say the least. A typical rock star hooked on sex, drugs, and rock n roll. The image I had created in my head was a Michael Hutchinson, smooth with the ladies, loved to party, sexy as hell with the voice to match.
In the beginning we know very little of Jack's past so I don't think I was particularly liking him but as the story evolves we start to get flashbacks into Jack's past and how he came to be and that's when his vulnerability and more sensitive side appears.
Astronaut turned musician? Jack is making the most of a bad situation, what could have been life ending situation. He knows he can't go home so decides to become a musician.
That is a story in itself.
But Nick Milligan takes this story to a deeper, darker level that I wasn't even expecting.
The one thing I would have wanted from this book is to have explored Jacks personality and his background a little more earlier on in the story.
March 9, 2016
I'm not entirely sure what I just read.
I don't know whether to love it or to hate it or to just be utterly confused.
I don't remember why I downloaded this two years ago (probably it was free) but I finally got round to reading it and it's probably the strangest things I've read so far in 2016.
I don't know whether to love it or to hate it or to just be utterly confused.
I don't remember why I downloaded this two years ago (probably it was free) but I finally got round to reading it and it's probably the strangest things I've read so far in 2016.
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