![]() ![]() One humanoid describes it thus: “The fragrance in the room has four hearts. The objects now populate the ship’s recreation rooms and give off a strange, mesmeric energy. ![]() Exploration of the planet New Discovery, and the retrieval of mysterious “objects,” have catalyzed the conflict. The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship, a bizarre collection of anodyne rooms on an undefined cosmic mission, is riven by the humanoids’ burgeoning self-awareness. Especially for a company hell-bent on exploiting both humans and humanoids, well away from terrestrial confines. Lund is the man behind a race of “humanoids”-fleshy bodies birthed from pods to be the perfect worker, with an artificial intelligence that may also be granting them something like consciousness in space’s endless night. Lund, a shadowy presence throughout this formally inventive novel. ![]() Ravn’s powerful man is not Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson, but Dr. There is something of both these ideas in Olga Ravn’s latest novel, published in Danish in 2018, before its translation to English last year (by Lolli Editions in 2020 in the UK) and shortlisting for the international Booker Prize. Perhaps they want simply to untether themselves from Earth and its trifling concerns like workers’ rights. Perhaps the darkness between the stars is the proximity to godliness they seek. Powerful men like to send things into space. ![]()
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