The Scheme for Full Employment: A Novel

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From Magnus Mills the acknowledged master of the working-class dystopic parablea genre he practically inventeda new work of comic genius The whole idea is simple yet so perfect: men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univansidentical and serviceable vehiclestransporting replacement parts for...Univans. Gloriously self-perpetuating the Scheme was designed to give an honest days wage for an honest days labor. That it produces nothing does not obtain. Our hero in Magnus Mills mesmerizing new work is a five-year veteran of the Scheme: he knows the best routes the easiest managers the quickest ways in and out. Inevitably trouble begins to brew. A woman arrives on the scene. Some workers develop delivery sidelines. And most disturbing of all not all participants are in agreement. There are Flat-Dayers who believe the Schemes eight-hour day is sacrosanct and inviolable and there are Swervers who fancy being let off a little early now and again. Disagreement turns to argument argument to debate debate to outright schism. Soon the Flat-Dayers and Swervers have pushed the Scheme to the very brink of disaster...and readers to the edge of their chairs in delight.