num_pages: 136
description: A workplace novel of the 22nd centuryThe near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth.The crew of the Six-Thousand ship consists of those who were born and those who were created. Those who will die and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them and human and humanoid employees alike find themselves longing for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Loved ones who have passed. Our shared far-away Earth which now only persists in memory.Gradually the crew members come to see themselves in a new light and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether their work can carry on as before  and what it means to be truly alive.Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission Ravns crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing The Employees probes into what it means to be human emotionally and ontologically while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by work and the logic of productivity.
language: English
title: The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
publisher: Lolli Editions