CUT TO:
A map. The continents
of earth are laid out—Americas at one side, Europe and Asia and
Africa to their east. Beyond the Indonesian island chain Australia
and New Zealand hang lonely on the edge of an abyss of
ocean.
The map pans right:
strange new continents swim into view, ragged-edged and huge. A few
of them are larger than Asia and Africa combined; most of them are
smaller.