![]() ![]() Slack declined to comment on the book when TechCrunch reached out, but Kasulke thinks that the company is cool with it - after all, the book’s publisher, Doubleday Books, ran a giveaway with Slack. The only time Gerald can’t work is when Slackbot shows him how to become one with sunset.gif, so that any time a Slack user uploads the gif, Gerald is transported to their workspace. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within their Slack workspace, the characters deal with a dog food publicity crisis, in-office romances and fights over who gets Gerald’s desk by the window while he “works from home” - he can’t commute to the office since he no longer has control of his body, but his supervisor doesn’t care, since he’s more productive than ever (what else is there to do but work when you’re literally stuck inside Slack?). “Several People Are Typing” is written entirely in Slack messages - Kasulke even wrote style guides for the idiosyncratic typing of each character, helping him develop the cast of characters, who work at a PR agency. But debut author Calvin Kasulke’s novel “ Several People Are Typing” gives us something new to be afraid of - what if you got trapped inside of your office’s Slack workspace, and Slackbot took over your corporeal form? As Kasulke told TechCrunch, “Capitalism is bad and bodies are prisons, but the only thing worse than having one is not having one.” Now that it’s October, it’s officially spooky season. ![]()
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