I was doing some rough math...
In the UK there are probably no more than 10,000 science fiction fans, defined as those who have attended at least one convention. I think that is close to the definition of "Fen"; people dedicated enough to take the trouble to attend a con. If you assume a UK population of 50 million that is one in five thousand of the population is Fen.
How many Fen in the US? If you say the US has eight times the population of the UK would you have 80,000? I don't know.
If you call the World Population 11 billion and say the proportion is the same then that is 2 million; I think 200 thousand is a more likely estimate.
Say 10% of Fen are prepared to go out into Fenspace, and can somehow manage to do it. That is 20 thousand.
With the population of Kandor City being quoted as 250 thousand you might guess at a million Fen scattered throughout Fenspace.
If you plan on the population of Fenspace being mostly Fen, with Mundanes in a secondary role, I think you need to think carefully about what is possible...
How much of the population needs to be Fen not 'Dane, for you to go on calling it 'Fenspace'?
Of course, it's possible my math is totally wrong! [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
In the UK there are probably no more than 10,000 science fiction fans, defined as those who have attended at least one convention. I think that is close to the definition of "Fen"; people dedicated enough to take the trouble to attend a con. If you assume a UK population of 50 million that is one in five thousand of the population is Fen.
How many Fen in the US? If you say the US has eight times the population of the UK would you have 80,000? I don't know.
If you call the World Population 11 billion and say the proportion is the same then that is 2 million; I think 200 thousand is a more likely estimate.
Say 10% of Fen are prepared to go out into Fenspace, and can somehow manage to do it. That is 20 thousand.
With the population of Kandor City being quoted as 250 thousand you might guess at a million Fen scattered throughout Fenspace.
If you plan on the population of Fenspace being mostly Fen, with Mundanes in a secondary role, I think you need to think carefully about what is possible...
How much of the population needs to be Fen not 'Dane, for you to go on calling it 'Fenspace'?
Of course, it's possible my math is totally wrong! [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind