Audition by Pip Adam

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.

Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves – experiences of imprisonment, violence and misrecognition, of disempowerment and underprivilege.

Pip Adam’s uncategorisable new novel, part science fiction, part social realism, asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room – about how we imagine new forms of justice, and how we transcend the bodies and selves we are given.

Praise for Nothing to See:

‘Brilliantly written…Pip Adam shows us what it is to fall apart and the cost of being reconstituted.’ – Australian Book Review

‘A complex and mind-bending exploration of the challenges of staying together…It invites readers to consider the many ways the developed world is fragmenting and dividing women.’ – Mascara Literary Review

‘A total masterpiece. Gripping, weird, funny, close to the bone. An intense portrait of sobriety, a mystery, a sci-fi novel, an urgent book about living in our panoptical present.‘ – Dan Kois

01 Jul 2023
 

Audition by Pip Adam ISBN 9781922725462