Audio only
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
Rating★★ 2.0 (1)
GenreFantasy, Science Fiction
Length2 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byHannah Curtis
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Openingcredits
26Statement 037
2Dedication
27Statement 035
3Introduction
28Statement 038
4Statement 004
29Statement 040
5Statement 012
30Statement 046
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6Statement 006
31Statement 041
7Statement 002
32Statement 047
8Statement 014
33Statement 042
9Statement 015
34Statement 052
10Statement 011
35Statement 055
11Statement 013
36Statement 049
12Statement 010
37Statement 057
13Statement 019
38Statement 048
14Statement 021
39Statement 053
15Statement 018
40Statement 054
16Statement 022
41Statement 056
17Statement 029
42Statement 061
18Statement 024
43Statement 054
19Statement 030
44Statement 062
20Statement 027
45Statement 057
21Statement 026
46Statement 063
22Statement 033
47Statement 058
23Statement 031
48Statement 064
24Statement 044
49Statement 067
25Statement 034
50Statement 066
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