John King
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In one source, the Barrayar population is said to be 2-3 billion ie 250m/500m per Count but the behaviour of the Counts is closer to medieval with access via Count's Courts and the like. And at least one Count-capital is at the 250,000 level - or is that me overwhelming with fanfic (oops) Is this my reading or is their a hiccup? Thanks JK
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm not sure where you got that population figure, but it wasn't from me. Too high. Some major cities are that large, though. (Which isn't that large -- my home urban area is something like 4 million, iirc.)
"Current" population of the planet is more than 50 million (that was its population back at the end of the Time of Isolation), less than 500 million. Komarr has maybe 1/10 the population of Barrayar. Sergyar, it's been noted, is up to about 2 million, making Vicereine Cordelia's administration roughly that of a mid-sized Midwestern city.
Ta, L.
I'm not sure where you got that population figure, but it wasn't from me. Too high. Some major cities are that large, though. (Which isn't that large -- my home urban area is something like 4 million, iirc.)
"Current" population of the planet is more than 50 million (that was its population back at the end of the Time of Isolation), less than 500 million. Komarr has maybe 1/10 the population of Barrayar. Sergyar, it's been noted, is up to about 2 million, making Vicereine Cordelia's administration roughly that of a mid-sized Midwestern city.
Ta, L.
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Love your work, it's helped put my own thoughts into coherent words. Science is advancing so that some technologies in your books could be possible, do you come across the scientific theories first and then write them in your books? Or do you look to see what you would like to happen and imagine how it could be possible?
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I know it's just over a 12 hour flight, but ever thought of coming to New Zealand to give a reading? You could go to Australia too. Although it is hot and has many snakes, actually if memory serves 7 or 8 of the top killers in the world. Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud, and the only thing you have to worry about is sheep.
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