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The Employees

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Science Fiction

Mature

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The Employees

a workplace novel of the 22nd centuryBy Olga RavnNarrated by Hannah Curtis

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The Employees

Length2h 31m

About this audiobook

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike 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 become strangely and deeply attached to them, and start aching for the same things—warmth and intimacy, loved ones who have passed, shopping and child-rearing, and faraway Earth, which now only persists in memory—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.

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Audiobook details

GenreFantasy, Science Fiction

Length2 hrs 31 mins

Narrated byHannah Curtis

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateMar 15, 2022

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Openingcredits

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2Dedication

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3Introduction

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104Addendum

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105Acknowledgements

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106Closingcredits

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