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    THE HUMAN LEAGUE

    May 28, 2021 3 minutes
    By Justine Jordan

    rom the mysterious monoliths in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the impossible spaceship in Arrival, one of science fiction’s favourite tropes is the alien artefact that defies human comprehension. Danish author Olga Ravn’s brilliantly unusual novel The Employees, which has been shortlisted for the International Booker prize, is an SF epic in mini ature, but it takes a prosaic approach to our dreams of extraterrestrial transcendence. “It’s

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