This slim book was so fascinating, I could not out it down, despite the fact that I am not typically a sci-fi reader. Told in a series of interviews with workers on the Seven Thousand Ship, the novel explores what it means to be human, to be a worker, and, most important to me, what it might mean when technology enslaves us rather than helping us accomplish our goals and aims. The interviews ostensibly are designed to capture what happens when unknown “objects” are introduced into the closed system of the spaceship; the result is heightened sensory memories of past lives in Earth, even for those humans and humanoids who had never experienced it. Ravn delicately recreates our intense and emotional connections to the natural world and to one another, and helps the reader think about the consequences of alienation from our senses and feelings. She lacks a lot into a tight narrative.