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The employees : a workplace novel of the 22nd century
- Title
- The employees : a workplace novel of the 22nd century / Olga Ravn ; translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
- Author
- Ravn, Olga
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
- ©2020
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- Additional Authors
- Aitken, Martin
- Description
- 125 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Ansatte. English
- Alternative Title
- Ansatte.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Call Number
- JFC 22-37
- ISBN
- 9780811231350
- 0811231356
- LCCN
- 2021044078
- OCLC
- 1277182477
- 1277182477
- Author
- Ravn, Olga, author.
- Title
- The employees : a workplace novel of the 22nd century / Olga Ravn ; translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Aitken, Martin, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ravn, Olga. Employees New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022 9780811231367 (DLC) 2021044079
- Research Call Number
- JFC 22-37