The Employees
Olga Ravn · 2020
Employees on a spaceship submit witness reports about objects from an alien planet and begin to change. Ravn's experimental SF novella is formally rigorous and philosophically rich, a standout science fiction work of the period.
The case against
A novella in numbered witness statements, and the numbers run out of things to witness. The crew members blur together, the alien objects stay deliberately undescribed, and the mutiny happens offstage between testimonies. Born as text for an art installation, it sometimes reads like exquisite wall copy: gorgeous, fragrant, and gone an hour later.
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