The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By Olga Ravn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811234827
• ISBN13: 9780811234825
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

This is more like a collection of Poetry than a SciFi novel

This wasn’t for me. The format itself is just too far afield from what I like. This is a collection of poems or short stories that tie into a common theme but remain poetically vague and nebulous. you might love this, but it’s definitely not for everyone.