Employees

In a near-far unclear future, millions of years away from planet Earth and where there is no way back, aboard the spaceship 6000, the testimonies of employees are collected from humans and quasi-humans, those who were born, and those who were made; in an attempt to understand what happened, through a fragmented poetic, scientific, philosophical mosaic. As "it is impossible to predict what will happen... in every movement there is an element of chaos... and it appears that the relationship between evolution and conflict is purely causal." Gradually, a world within the world begins to take shape, a momentum within the narrow space, with its hybrid and familiar details. Where does the human as a being begin, where does it end, and when? Between longing and sorrow, loss and love, attachment, submission, loyalty, and devotion, forgetting the self and respecting hierarchy, between questioning and silence, between inanimate and living, and between them, the features of the strange experimental narrative are drawn in a unique journey. "If Samuel Beckett had written a screenplay for the film Alien, it would be this novel." Nicolas Gary, ActuaLitté "Through this science fiction novel fueled by poetry and symbolism, Olga Ravn shows that the meaning of life can only be through death. A luminous message at a time when the heralds of the 'post-human' trend are trying to deceive, making what they see, mistakenly, the end, not the beginning." Aline Deville, Le Figaro "Some time ago, Olga Ravn confirmed her position as one of the most important contemporary Danish literary writers, and one of the most influential. Her new book is a vibrant mix of cyberpunk, living stones, and production enhancements. A novel among the most thought-provoking science fiction stories."