Defekt by Nino Cipri

Defekt

Nino Cipri

Tor/Forge · Paperback · April 20, 2021

Winner of the British Fantasy Award!

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Who it’s for
A surreal workplace adventure turns loyalty, defective goods, and five near-identical Dereks into darkly comic unease.
Themes
Workplace loyalty and labor, Doubles and identity
Genres
Absurdist Fiction, Sci-Fi, Funny Sci-Fi

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About this book

Winner of the British Fantasy Award! Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri's Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure. Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later.

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But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. An excellent employee like Derek, an employee made to work at LitenVärld, shouldn't need time off. To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests with pincers and eye stalks, ambulatory sleeper sofas, killer mutant toilets, that kind of thing. Helping him is the inventory team — four strangers who look and sound almost exactly like him. Are five Dereks better than one?

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A surreal workplace adventure turns loyalty, defective goods, and five near-identical Dereks into darkly comic unease.

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  • A loyal employee facing a very strange inventory shift
  • Monstrous furniture and appliances, with a wry edge

Expect

  • Surreal world-hopping adventure
  • Workplace devotion tested in uncanny, comic fashion

Where it sits

Absurdist Fiction42%
Funny Sci-Fi29%
Sci-Fi29%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
Authors
Nino Cipri
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
April 20, 2021
Format
Paperback
Theme
Workplace loyalty and labor · Doubles and identity
Reading lane
Sci-Fi Adventure