The Employees, originally written in Danish, has a fascinating format. It is made up of a series of barely a page or two each of non-sequential entries from employee interviews conducted by a nameless committee on a spaceship called the Six Thousand Ship. The employees are a mix of humans and humanoids, and the interviews are being conducted to observe and document their responses to alien objects picked from a planet called New Discovery. The entries are super-ominous, vivid, melancholic and in some places very disturbing. The characters remain unnamed, analogous to the namelessness and expendability of human cogs in late capitalistic workplaces of today, one of the many satirical aspects of the book. The end is intriguingly disconcerting. And I learnt about trypophobia. I think I have it but have found coping mechanisms. I wish there was more I could read though. It felt very abrupt but with immense potential to be a saga. I shall go hunt down if Olga has written more on this.