Underfed citizens of an overcrowded and worn out planet.
Mr. Broecker worries that this could perhaps occur within a century, when our overcrowded planet will be more vulnerable than ever before.
The story is set on "an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast".
Let's hope his parents were the last generation to bring as many as six children into an overcrowded planet.
In short, Holovision is still using techniques okay for a cramped, overcrowded planet and using them on an inifinitely large space.
Scoured by the grief of uncounted deaths, he saw cities swept clean of life, whole planets overcrowded and enslaved.
That inspired the Doona story, which opens on "an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast".
There was life, more life than one would expect - an overcrowded planet, a place that swarmed with life.
The Manticoran colonists primarily wanted to get away from a grossly overcrowded planet.
As a technology it doesn't extrapolate onto an overcrowded planet.