The Employees

Shortlisted for prestigious literary awards, The Employees is a provocative sci-fi novel that blends humor and existential dread as it follows the staff aboard the Six-Thousand Ship. Through a series of reports and memos, the story explores deep human desires and tensions among crew members—humanoid and human alike—especially as they encounter strange objects from a distant planet. Olga Ravn’s striking prose offers a chilling and insightful look at what it means to be human in a world driven by productivity and longing.