Amazon keeps recommending those to me, but I got so very, very angry at some of the author's other work because the characters ticked me off that I haven't wanted to try them. I don't know if I would notice the problems you're pointing out. I like to think that I would, but... I'm not always that quick on the uptake with such things.
But, if I did spot it, I don't think I'd read further.
But if you have cheap, mechanized laborers, why slaves? If slaves are somehow cheaper, then why mechanized laborers at all? Unless maybe there's already a big anti-slavery movement... And if humans are being replaced by machines, what happens to the humans?
If slaves cost more, they might be a luxury item/status symbol of some sort, but that would mean they wouldn't be particularly common which would, in turn, mean that the triangle trade wouldn't work at all the same way.
Hm. I'd actually be interested in a story that explored all of that. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this book does anything remotely like that.
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Date: 2015-09-08 12:10 am (UTC)But, if I did spot it, I don't think I'd read further.
But if you have cheap, mechanized laborers, why slaves? If slaves are somehow cheaper, then why mechanized laborers at all? Unless maybe there's already a big anti-slavery movement... And if humans are being replaced by machines, what happens to the humans?
If slaves cost more, they might be a luxury item/status symbol of some sort, but that would mean they wouldn't be particularly common which would, in turn, mean that the triangle trade wouldn't work at all the same way.
Hm. I'd actually be interested in a story that explored all of that. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this book does anything remotely like that.