Loved Perfection by for its ironic corporate cynicism? The Employees by takes that barrenness into orbit.
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- Interview-style structure amplifies workplace absurdity
- Space-station setting sharpens the corporate cage
- Human vs synthetic: who's more alienated?
- Poetic fragments replace exhausting plot mechanics
If Perfection's surgical takedown of self-optimization culture left you craving more ironic corporate hellscapes, Ravn's The Employees delivers: a deadpan space-station workplace where algorithmic efficiency erodes every human impulse you thought indelible. Same spare European elegance, same refusal to moralize, but now the performance reviews happen in zero gravity and the emotional barrenness you recognized in Milan's startup scene floats untethered among the stars.
Here, the spreadsheet utopia you laughed at becomes literal—a sci-fi vessel where connection decays under surveillance and even nostalgia gets inventoried. It's Perfection's cynicism, distilled and launched into orbit.
Think of it as your productivity hack finally achieving escape velocity.
What Readers Are Saying
"At times it's horrific, at times it's hilarious...it is always poignant." — liv ❁, Goodreads
"Olga Ravn's masterfully constructed science fiction tale...provocative and disturbing with every turn of the page." — Glenn Russell, Goodreads
"The Employees proves that one can mix experimental structures...a heartfelt tale emerges." — Robert, Goodreads
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