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“look, I know you don’t believe me when I say I’m imprisoned in our slack workplace”

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

October 11, 2022 by GentleRain 4 Comments

CBR14Bingo: Rec’d (I recommend this one! Fast and excellent skewering of Slack/work culture in 2022) This is one of those books that hit me at the exact right time. As someone who is constantly on Slack for work, I am still thinking about perfectly it skewered the grim experience of corporate tech chat messaging. Throughout the day today I was struck by how well he satirized various interactions. Several People are Typing gets everything about the tone and the purgatorial aspect of this platform while […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Calvin Kasulke, cbr14bingo, epistolary novel, office culture, Satire, spec-fic

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:94 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Calvin Kasulke, cbr14bingo, epistolary novel, office culture, Satire, spec-fic ·
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What are you worth?

84K by Claire North

January 26, 2019 by Claire Badger 2 Comments

Theo is an average citizen in a fairly average dystopia. You know the kind: human rights violations are normal, everyone is scared, and the government wields unilateral power with virtually no opposition; or, to be more accurate, The Company (a mega corp) runs the government, which wields power with virtually no opposition. Everyday, Theo gets up, goes to work, calculates the financial costs of crimes to society, slaps a bill on the perpetrator, bothers absolutely no one, stands up not even for himself (to the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, 1984, 84K, British, capitalism, children of men, Claire North, dystopia, handmaid's tale, sci-fi, spec-fic, Speculative Fiction

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, 1984, 84K, British, capitalism, children of men, Claire North, dystopia, handmaid's tale, sci-fi, spec-fic, Speculative Fiction ·
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