It is the year 2042. A catastrophic climate-change experiment has left Earth uninhabitable. The survivors of the human race have decamped to a new planet on the far side of the Universe. A few remain, however, living in domed cities towering above dense rainforests roamed by giant creatures and murderous Slakterghast bands. Rib Meskitoe - a fourteen-year-old student from the MK Citidome - has run away from home and ends up working on a lottery terminal in Wigan. There he takes an old lady's jackpot-winning ticket worth 250 million dollars and suddenly finds himself on the run, a fugitive in the rainforest with a price on his head. All he has is the money and a cryptic set of instructions from his oddball friend, Kaddie... A surreal roller-coaster ride through a dystopian landscape of the not-too-distant future, Big Frog is the first book in The Meskitoe Trilogy.