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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 90,919 ratings — published 1992
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,816 ratings — published 1993
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 33,885 ratings — published 1996
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.30 — 197,584 ratings — published 2015
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.63 — 372 ratings — published 2023
2312 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 22,320 ratings — published 2012
The Terraformers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 7,782 ratings — published 2023
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 70,475 ratings — published 2019
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 128,300 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,382,867 ratings — published 2011
Plutoshine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.82 — 549 ratings — published 2022
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 45,658 ratings — published 2020
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 146,139 ratings — published 2016
Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, #11)
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avg rating 4.30 — 18,965 ratings — published 1998
The Empress of Mars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,117 ratings — published 2009
The Last Contract of Isako (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.01 — 12,208 ratings — published 2026
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
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avg rating 4.23 — 8,475 ratings — published 2026
Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 49 ratings — published
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.12 — 148 ratings — published
The World as an Architectural Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.29 — 31 ratings — published
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.70 — 44 ratings — published 2015
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.36 — 83,578 ratings — published 2017
The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,370 ratings — published 1999
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,423 ratings — published 1950
Last and First Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 7,246 ratings — published 1930
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,342 ratings — published 1970
Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.78 — 64,616 ratings — published 2022
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 28,488 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
by (shelved 2 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.45 — 176 ratings — published 2020
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 147)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published
Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published
Intelligence and Spirit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 168 ratings — published 2018
Waste Tide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 3,089 ratings — published 2013
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 461 ratings — published
The Anthrobscene (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 88 ratings — published 2014
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.00 — 289 ratings — published 2011
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2007
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,583 ratings — published 1988
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds (Experimental Futures)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61 ratings — published 2016
God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
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avg rating 3.88 — 158,606 ratings — published 1981
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 98,454 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 319,661 ratings — published 1989
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 339,538 ratings — published 2011
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 988,549 ratings — published 2014
Building Harlequin's Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,503 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 34,552 ratings — published 2008
The Sands of Mars (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 5,261 ratings — published 1951
Any Sign of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as terraforming)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,362 ratings — published 2021
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as terraforming)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,904 ratings — published 2022
“The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square.”
― Heaven's Queen
― Heaven's Queen
“We had already realized from the disaster on Mars that transplanting Earth ecology wouldn't work. Crops would not grow without specific symbiotic fungi on their roots to extract nutrients, and the exact fungi would not grow without the proper soil composition, which did not exist without certain saprophytic bacteria that had proven resistant to transplantation, each life-form demanding its own billion-year-old niche. But Mars fossils and organic chemicals in interstellar comets showed that the building blocks of life were not unique to Earth. Proteins, amino acids, and carbohydrates existed everywhere. The theory of panspermia was true to a degree.
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis
