The Situation

"In The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer has created a work of surreal humor, bemused sadness, and meticulous artifice. It is as if the workplace novels of Sinclair Lewis and Joshua Ferris had been inverted, shaken, and diced until they came out looking like a Terry Gilliam creation. That a story which curves so resolutely inward toward its own logic could also be so poignant is something of an astonishment." - Kevin Brockmeier

"Take Dilbert, insert him into Gormenghast, add lashings of nightmarish biotech, and you'll have something of the flavour of Jeff VanderMeer's The Situation. This darkly hilarious sotry tells horrible truths about modern work and workplace relations. Anyone who has ever had a dysfunctional colleague, or served a flawed organisation, will recognise all too easily the machinations and the monsters in here." - Margo Lanagan