The Electric State falls under historical fiction, a category of works where the past is reimagined due to a key event having a different outcome.  This results in an alternate timeline where things are both familiar and different at the same time.  In The Watchmen, America became an authoritarian state after Richard Nixon refused to leave office and won a third term as president.  The Man in the High Castle reimagined a post-WWII America where the Germans and the Japanese won and invaded the east and west coasts.  For The Electric State, problems ensue when the automatons originally developed by Walt Disney for his theme parks evolve into autonomous service workers and start taking people’s jobs.  We all knew that the “It’s a Small World” ride was evil, but this is ridiculous.

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