Loompaland

For the Loompas who toil from birth to invariably gruesome death in the Wonka Candy Works, the massive Factory is the only world they know. After a grisly accident kills three of his colleagues, a case of mistaken identity sends Loompa Bill P. on a journey to William R. Wonka's inner circle, then to the toxic candy waste pits below the Factory, and ultimately to the forefront of a "Revoloomption." Loompaland unwraps a sticky confection of workers' rights, entrepreneur-worship, industrial food production, and the absurdities of unchecked corporate power. Gross candies roll off the lines, and the warning signs list all the fascinating ways a Loompa can be killed. Bill P and his fellow Loompas ricochet from triumph to disaster and back, in a novel that is fierce, funny, angry, and shot through with scenes of hilarity and terror.

Matthew F. Amati's fiction has appeared in magazines such as Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, Space Squid, and elsewhere. This is his first novel that was any good.