The Employees

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Title: The Employees Author: Olga Ravn ISBN: 9780811234825 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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. Show more