![]() ![]() Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now. The novel is written entirely in Slack messages. ![]() Can you relate to the times when Gerald enjoys having a separate consciousness Have you ever felt disconnected from your own body 2. Meanwhile, Gerald’s co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? Discuss the pros and cons of having a body. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ‘real’ world? ![]() wherever he says he is.įaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service’s AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it’s an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. ![]() Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company’s Slack channel. Is it still WFH when you’re now just binary code? Several People Are Typing is fun, funny, addictive, and surrealI blazed through it in an hour, came up for air, and then immediately blazed through it again. ![]()
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