The Immortal King Rao

<strong>Lauren Nelson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes about extraction, humanism, disaster, and ontology.</strong>

Lauren Nelson

Coconuts, Corporations: On Vauhini Vara’s “The Immortal King Rao”

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

The Inhumanity of Work: On Olga Ravn’s “The Employees”

Lauren Nelson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes about extraction, humanism, disaster, and ontology.