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.
