Logistically, I don't think there would be a way to get enough supplies into Sitka to support that many people. If its airport and ferry options are like Juneau's (no road options), they're pretty limited. I suppose with 3.2 million people, they would have figured out how to develop those options better than what they are now with 15,000 residents. But then, where would all those people live? You can't build straight up the mountains...avalanches would wipe you out, and bears would eat you. You can't build into the water...it's not nice. So the available space is limited. So my ability to imagine how Sitka could have been built up into such a huge metropolis is a big hang-up in the first 20 pages already. I will have to convince myself that the author has never been there and/or that it's such an alternate universe that it bears almost no relation to actual Sitka.
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Date: 2008-08-10 01:34 am (UTC)