The Employees

Name: The Employees
Author: Olga Ravn
ISBN: 9781771667616

Olga Ravn

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The Employees

Olga Ravn

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#3317 of 8,085 books · #735 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2021).

The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike 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 become strangely and deeply attached to them, and start aching for the same things—warmth and intimacy, loved ones who have passed, shopping and child-rearing, and faraway Earth, which now only persists in memory—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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