Quarter Share.
I think I already posted about this, but I want to talk some delightful elements to this novel.
Namely:
-- five pages spent on how to make coffee, while the protag cleans and measures and grinds.
-- about half the book is dedicated to developing trade for the ship's crew, including establishing a coop. The coop has rules: the coop takes 1% of proceeds, up to 10 credits per person per day. The coop splits the proceeds with whomever is doing the selling, to encourage people to do the selling. Items that are on consignment instead give 10% to the coop, and that's split 50-50 with the person doing the selling.
-- everyone has strengths! The protag's friend starts off on the wrong track, but with some clever work by protag is able to get back on track.
These were all pretty great. This is the sort of book Heinlein might've written, had he been born 50 years later.
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Ohhhh, a co-op. I thought you were talking about coops like you put birds in. I'm like "why does a ship need a coop?"
ReplyDeleteShould I edit, Lex Larson ?
ReplyDeleteNah, I was momentarily baffled, s'all!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure more tall ships had coops than co-ops.
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