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The Employees

A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

by Olga Ravn & Martin Aitken (translator)

Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding. The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity. 
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Pages:

144

Published:

7 Feb 2023

Format

Paperback

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN:

9780811234825

Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding. The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity. 
$40.00

Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, this strange and beautiful book is at once a sharp satire of workplace language and culture, an an intriguing space epic, and a rumination on the nature of humanity. Poetic and so fucking weird -yet approachable and deeply resonant.

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