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The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century

Olga Ravn

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9780811234825
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9780811234825
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Published by:
New Directions
Translated by:
Martin Aitken
Pub date:
02/07/2023
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
144
ISBN:
9780811234825
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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.