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The Employees
- A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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Shortlisted for the International Booker prize, 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 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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- Anonymous User
- 23-06-23
Beautiful. Disturbing. Sad. Memorable.
This book hypnotised me. It's the most peculiar, melancholy experience. Listened to it a month ago and it's remained with me still. I don't think I'll ever forget it. Narrator is perfect.
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- spencerhudson
- 07-06-23
Sci-fi at its best - putting imagination to work
What a fantastic story which slowly opens up thought the employee statements … challenging the reader to think and piece together various elements … each statement adds more and the full picture unfolds.
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- Roly
- 30-05-23
Beware of what we wish for
An unassumingly bleak view of a futuristic world, as both humans and humanoids suffer from deprivation of the personal and the intimate. Related in short stark statements, the almost lone identifiable character seems progressively to lose hope and commitment.
A wake up call to cherish our humanity and reject AI
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