The-Employees-A-Workplace-Novel-of-the-22nd-Century-Olga-Ravn

author: [[ Olga Ravn ]]

BookNotes

Scifi novel written in short statements given to HR by the crew onboard a spaceship. The crew have brought rocks onto the ship and these rocks are making the artificial humans dream and feel. An exploration of what it is to be human and the careless disposability of corporate workers.

5-things-to-steal

  • Prose-Poem statements that build up to more than the sum of their parts.
  • A story told in fragments, where you get pieces of the story as you go along.
  • Rethinking genre cliches to be powerful and effective
  • Mysterious, never explains too much, especially about the rocks.
  • Beautiful concise writing