"Charles Stross - Scratch Monkey" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stross Charles)

Primary
G1 Dwarf

Distance
1.24 A.U.
Second planet of seven
none of rest habitable

Moons
None

Diameter
13,000 K.M.

Land area
68% of total surface

Colonised
Year 2427
Present t minus 709 years

Last update
t minus 231 years

Population
1,390,000,000 (last update)
Growth 1.2 % pa

Nations
214

Languages
4 (316 dialects)

Technology
Low => Moderate

Industrialization
(inferred; currently Moderate)

Ethnicity
Unrecorded
... It goes on from there. Two hundred nations? Double the land area of Terra? A population
measured in billions? I could be hunting a needle in a haystack, except that Year Zero Man is
hardly inconspicuous.
The rim of the heat shield glows a pleasant cherry red as the g's stack up then began to tail off
again; first the sky turns ruddy orange, then the shell of the pod shrieks in protest when it drops
through the highest reaches of the stratosphere. The plasma conic burns out. The plan was to head
for the land mass with the highest rate of change of population density we could derive from
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