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Olga Ravn: The Employees (New Directions)

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously …

The Employees

Intriguing speculative fiction in the form of a series of testimonies by workers on a ship -- some of whom are human and some of whom are androids. It also feels like a museum exhibition catalog if it were written by museum workers who haven't been told anything about the exhibition. In its relatively few pages, Ravn manages to limn the boundaries between subject/object, animacy/inanimacy, and sensation, emotion, and perception.