kluge

If you and I are in the same =‘entertainment venue’ for this =‘stand-up comedy special’ and I am =‘my body’ and you are =‘my audience’ I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you are there.

Yes, you
=‘dear reader’
=‘attentive listener’.

This is a story about the end days of a tech company and its all-powerful owner, told in the style of a stand-up comedy special.

Prophetic, propulsive and absurdly entertaining, kluge is a workplace satire about artificial intelligence and the value of a body–and Pip Adam's best novel yet.

'An audacious, dazzling masterpiece. I love you, Pip Adam, put me on a leash and drag me to Hell.' —Hera Linsday Bird

'utterly unmooring . . . a work of outrageous genius.’ —Jordy Rosenberg, author of Night Night Fawn

'meticulously crafted ... a mind-bending and chilling artefact’ —Kerry Donovan Brown, author of Lamplighter

Note: this book is available in four different coloured covers.

pip adam is Tangata Tiriti and a fiction writer who lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She is the author of four novels: Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), The New Animals (2017, winner of the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction), and I’m Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010, winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction). Audition was published in Australia by Giramondo and in the UK by Peninsula Press. pip makes the Better off Read podcast.