Adam, Pip
Entry updated 12 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) New Zealand author, active from 2005 or earlier. Her first novel, the Near Future I'm Working on a Building (2013), revolves around the physical and metaphysical implications of the construction of an immense, patently phallic tower; the cowers. In her third novel, Nothing to See (2020), control over human Perceptions, as exercised through modern surveillance techniques, can cause genuine individuals to literally appear or disappear on command (see Invisibility). Audition (2023) is set on a Spaceship housing three giant humans who have grown too big for the home Dystopia back on Earth. Further growth is painful, possibly fatal: to stay the same size, and to keep the ship powered, they must make noise. They sing. Adam's style is hallucinated, deadpan, deracinating. [JC]
Pip Adam
born Christchurch, New Zealand
works (selected)
- I'm Working on a Building (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 2013)
- Nothing to See (Wellington, New Zealand: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2020) [pb/Russell Kleyn]
- Audition (Wellington, New Zealand: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023) [pb/Philip Kelly]
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