Both powerful and poetic, the chilling prescience and emotional eloquence of Ravn’s prose is wonderfully rendered in Martin Aitken’s translation. At its heart is a fundamental question: what does it really mean to be human? Each short testimony has its own answer, as those who were born and those who were made all start to question their roles and what it means to them to be alive. Structured as a series of witness statements from the crew - both human and non-human - of the Six-Thousand Ship as it orbits the planet New Discovery, it charts the impact of some strange objects taken on board and the effect they have on those that come into contact with them.
Billed as a ‘workplace novel for the 22nd century’, Olga Ravn’s The Employees takes science fiction down a new path.
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