Several People Are Typing (2021)

An employee's consciousness becomes trapped inside his firm's Slack channels, where his colleagues have plenty of work to do and limited patience for the problem. The entire novel uses workplace messages, making pauses, reactions and channel changes do narrative work. Familiar office habits become a surreal comic system. It is an inviting option if you want formal invention with quick exchanges and recognisable social awkwardness, rather than pages of explanatory theory.