kluge

Book Author pip adam
Rights Available World excl. NZ and USA

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.

About the Author

pip adam is the author of Audition (2023), which was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction; Nothing to See (2020), also shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction; The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction; I’m Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Audition was published in Australia by Giramondo and in the UK by Peninsula Press, The New Animals in the US by the Dorothy Project, and Nothing to See in Australia by Giramondo. pip also makes the Better off Read podcast. In 2025 she was the recipient of the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship, awarded every two years to an established writer to work on a major project.