Mature
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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.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Science Fiction
Length2 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byHannah Curtis
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Openingcredits
54Statement 073
2Dedication
55Statement 077
3Introduction
56Statement 081
4Statement 004
57Statement 075
5Statement 012
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6Statement 006
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103Assessment
51Statement 068
104Addendum
52Statement 069
105Acknowledgements
53Statement 071
106Closingcredits
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