Some staff is afraid of the enigmatic sentient entities, while others treat them like treasured farm animals. 'The object' brought aboard from a neighboring planet, known as New Discovery, has hampered their production. But it's the end of the line for the human laborers who have been transferred light-years away from their families back on Earth. While the humanoids' bodies will be destroyed, their AI consciousnesses will live on in a later upload. When the humanoids begin to rebel, acting outside of their training, the firm that owns the airplane decides to carry out a 'biological termination' to save its cargo. 'The object,' shattering the peace between humans and humanoids, causes chaos, and we are all meant to wonder: What does it mean to be human? A committee comes aboard the Six Thousand Ship to examine the effects of the items on the crew. That changes when strange relics known as 'the objects' are found on the planet and brought onboard. The two collaborate harmoniously, united in a single mission: to study a planet dubbed New Discovery. The novel 'The Employees' is set in space aboard a spacecraft called the Six Thousand Ship, which is inhabited by a crew of both humans and humanoids. Unlike HAL's attempted sabotage of the American space program, and unlike Terminator's objective to successfully eliminate mankind, the humanoids in The Employees strive to overturn the kingdom of work, not the reign of humans. Although her novel's protagonists are divided along a human/computer divide, Ravn's 'robot uprising' does not specifically target the human world. Olga Ravn's new novel, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the Twenty-First Century, depicts a very different dynamic.

The Employees by Olga Ravn