Free@Last TV, the production company behind ‘Agatha Raisin’, has optioned the series of novels ‘Rockstar Ending’ by N.A. Rossi, for a returnable TV series.
N.A Rossi is the author name for former corporate executive and journalist Nicola Rossi who began writing fiction with an entry to a competition inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
‘Rockstar Ending’ started life as her short story ‘One Last Gift’ which won a Dystopian Fiction Award from the prestigious Orwell Society and was published in the Journal of Orwell Studies. The judges described the story as ‘highly original, macabre and very funny’.
Adapted into the first of a series of long-form self-published novels ‘Rockstar Ending’ is followed by ‘Rock On’ and the soon to be released ‘Rockaway’. An additional prequel novella ‘For Those About to Rock’ is also available.
‘Rockstar Ending’ is set in late 2020s London where manipulation by social media and artificial intelligence is out of control
London. 2027. An ordinary woman discovers she is capable of extraordinary things. When Lexi finds out that older people are being coerced into genocide by stealth, she vows to take on the sinister corporation behind the ultimate Rockstar Ending.
It’s hard to resist their invitation to a pain-free suicide with a glamorous spin, a seductive soundtrack, and a killer inheritance tax exemption. After her best friend’s mother books herself a one-way ticket, Lexi sets out on a rescue mission that takes her deep into the heart of the death factory.
In a turbulent political landscape, the Yuthentic movement has opened a rift between the generations, pursuing the redistribution of wealth to younger people by all possible means.
Technology is weaponised to manipulate the victims, unseen, as social media, artificial intelligence, and all manner of robots are deployed to undermine humanity.
But the underground resistance is getting stronger.
How can an unconventional band of unlikely heroes stop the killing – before it’s all too late?
Writing in The Idler fellow author Cathi Unsworth described the novel as ‘… eerily prescient: that by 2027, the volatile gulf that presently exists between a malcontented generation seemingly robbed of decent living standards by their never-had-it-so-good Baby Boomer grandparents will have developed into a state-sanctioned death industry, cloaked in the twinkling veneer of celebrity culture’.