![]() ![]() The Employees is not only a disconcertingly quotidian space opera it’s also an audacious satire of corporate language and the late-capitalist workplace, and a winningly abstracted investigation into what it means to be human… This clever, endlessly thought-provoking novel catches something of our recursive search for the nature of consciousness a question that answers itself, a voice in the darkness, an object moving through space.Įverything I’m looking for in a novel. ![]() The actual business of the Six Thousand Ship is nevertheless wholly modern: resource extraction, as employees make occasional excursions to harvest commodities known only as 'objects.' These soon come to derail-delightfully-both the ship’s functioning and its crew’s philosophizing.Ī deeply sensory book, suffused with aroma and alert to tactility. Like the figures of an epic, the workers seem composed of equal parts fate and randomness, automation and rebellion. The Employees feels close to Greek mythology. ![]()
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