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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 91,305 ratings — published 1992
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,955 ratings — published 1993
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 33,989 ratings — published 1996
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 201,346 ratings — published 2015
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
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avg rating 3.63 — 372 ratings — published 2023
2312 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 22,405 ratings — published 2012
The Terraformers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 7,847 ratings — published 2023
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.04 — 71,835 ratings — published 2019
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 128,867 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,395,517 ratings — published 2011
Plutoshine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 553 ratings — published 2022
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 46,472 ratings — published 2020
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 149,724 ratings — published 2016
Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, #11)
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avg rating 4.30 — 19,047 ratings — published 1998
The Empress of Mars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,120 ratings — published 2009
The Last Contract of Isako (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 14,437 ratings — published 2026
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9,555 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)
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avg rating 4.11 — 149 ratings — published
The World as an Architectural Project (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8 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 3.71 — 45 ratings — published 2015
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 85,436 ratings — published 2017
The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as terraforming)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,377 ratings — published 1999
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,484 ratings — published 1950
Last and First Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 7,318 ratings — published 1930
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 131,689 ratings — published 1970
Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 65,797 ratings — published 2022
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 29,751 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
by (shelved 2 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.47 — 177 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 — 170 ratings — published 2018
Waste Tide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 3,118 ratings — published 2013
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 464 ratings — published
The Anthrobscene (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 89 ratings — published 2014
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.00 — 288 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 — 1,602 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 — 160,486 ratings — published 1981
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 99,482 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 323,173 ratings — published 1989
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 342,681 ratings — published 2011
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,026,272 ratings — published 2014
Building Harlequin's Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,509 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 34,932 ratings — published 2008
The Sands of Mars (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 5,285 ratings — published 1951
Orbital Bebop (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 6 ratings — published 2026
The Infinite Extent (Bobiverse, #6)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,012 ratings — published
“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
“The living who escaped the Earth might all die on the journey. A hostile planet could undo terraforming in innumerable ways. Even a common cold could mutate into a plague. But a tiny chance in the stars conquered a sure eradication on their home world.”
― The Lifecycle of Suns
― The Lifecycle of Suns
