![]() ![]() Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke - 9781529358346 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. ![]() 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. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke, 9781529358346, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() 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? In the titular story, Several People Are Typing, the narrator is an isolated office worker who frequents an online chatroom and dreams of making a connection. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ‘real’ world? Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke is a collection of short stories exploring themes of loneliness, love, community, and identity in the digital age. 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? ![]()
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