The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers
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Creator: ReImagining Value Action Lab
Single-voiced Science fiction Anthology Audio Book
Synopsis:
The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more.
Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them.
What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories?
The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded online for free, and is also available as a podcast and audiobook.
For more information, visit http://afteramazon.world.
Book editors: Xenia Benivolksi, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola and Graeme Webb
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Illustrations: Amanda Priebe
Publisher: RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab
In Ibrahim Alsahary’s “The Iron Uprising,” robots and humans come together in common struggle… and in love. Cory Gluck’s “Thalia in Albios” depicts one woman’s journey through a dystopian future, from terrified housecleaner to fearless revolutionary. What could go wrong if scientists tried to artificially enhance the empathy that people have lost in an age of techno-isolation? In Dartagnan’s “Relentless” we find out.
In Anneth Chepkoech’s “Life After Amazon” a young migrant boy dreams of creating an online retail platform that respects and values workers like his father. Pearl Cecil Sigur Ramsey’s “ANYBODY HOME?” presents a podcast from the end of the world, where corporations can even exploit screams of rebellion.
Several writers chose to remain anonymous. “Forever on the Clock” tells the story of a worker who quits Amazon only to discover the prison where he is being held looks very familiar… In “The Dark Side of Convenience” workers are kept so busy working for Amazon they don’t realize the apocalypse the company is helping to create. After Amazon’s fall, a local ruler uses violence and fear to dominate the island of Zanjara. It’s up to his son to find “The Museum of Prime” and restore the balance.“New Entry” takes us to the far future, where humanity has found the source of infinite energy, but is not yet free from the power of propaganda…
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Anthology
Voices: Single
Genres: Science fiction
Completion status: NA
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Episodes:
The Iron Uprising, by Ibrahim Alsahary
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:01:22 +0000
Robots and humans come together in common struggle… and in love.
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Ibrahim Alsahary
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Thalia in Albios, by Cory Gluck
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:34:07 +0000
One woman’s journey through a dystopian future, from terrified housecleaner to fearless revolutionary
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Cory Gluck
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:34:31 +0000
What could go wrong if scientists tried to artificially enhance the empathy that people have lost in an age of techno-isolation?
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Dartagnan
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Life After Amazon, by Anneth Chepkoech
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:34:48 +0000
A young migrant boy dreams of creating an online retail platform that respects and values workers like his father.
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Anneth Chepkoech
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
ANYBODY HOME?, by Pearl Cecil Sigur Ramsey
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:35:10 +0000
A podcast from the end of the world, where corporations can even exploit screams of rebellion.
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Pearl Cecil Sigur Ramsey
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Forever on the Clock, by Worker #3
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:35:51 +0000
The story of a worker who quits Amazon only to discover the prison where he is being held looks very familiar…
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Worker 3
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
The Dark Side of Convenience, by Worker 1
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:36:05 +0000
Workers are kept so busy working for Amazon they don’t realize the apocalypse the company is helping to create.
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Worker 1
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
The Museum of Prime, by Worker 2
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:36:13 +0000
After Amazon’s fall, a local ruler uses violence and fear to dominate the island of Zanjara. It’s up to his son to find The Museum of Prime and restore the balance.
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Worker 2
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:36:22 +0000
In the far future, humanity has found the source of infinite energy... but it is not yet free from the power of propaganda…
This short story is part of The World After Amazon, a collection of short speculative fiction by Amazon workers. To learn more, to order the book, or to read or listen to more stories, please visit http://afteramazon.world
Author: Worker 4
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer