Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

Gardner Dozois, Poul Anderson, Ian McDonald, Richard McKenna, G. David Nordley, Robert Reed, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pamela Sargent, Cordwainer Smith, Bruce Sterling, John Varley, Stephen Baxter, Roger Zelazny, Gregory Benford, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, Philip Jennings, William H. Keith Jr., Geoffrey A. Landis, Laura Mixon

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3.00 · 1 ratings · 465 pages · Published: 07 Dec 2001
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming by Gardner Dozois, Poul Anderson, Ian McDonald, Richard McKenna, G. David Nordley, Robert Reed, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pamela Sargent, Cordwainer Smith, Bruce Sterling, John Varley, Stephen Baxter, Roger Zelazny, Gregory Benford, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, Philip Jennings, William H. Keith Jr., Geoffrey A. Landis, Laura Mixon
When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:

Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Philip Jennings * William H. Kieth * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ian McDonald * Richard McKenna * Laura Mixon * G. David Nordley * Robert Reed * Kim Stanley Robinson * Pamela Sargent * Cordwainer Smith * Bruce Sterling * John Varley * Roger Zelazny

These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.


Contents
ix • Preface (Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • The Big Rain • [Psychotechnic League] • (1954) • novella by Poul Anderson
50 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
60 • Before Eden • (1961) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
69 • Hunter, Come Home • (1963) • novelette by Richard McKenna
99 • The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
118 • Retrograde Summer • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
134 • Shall We Take a Little Walk? • (1981) • novelette by Gregory Benford
150 • The Catharine Wheel • (1984) • novelette by Ian McDonald (aka The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis))
166 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling
179 • Out of Copyright • (1989) • shortstory by Charles Sheffield
193 • A Place with Shade • [The Remarkables] • (1995) • novelette by Robert Reed
221 • Dawn Venus • (1995) • novelette by G. David Nordley
245 • For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman
277 • The Road to Reality • (1996) • novelette by Phillip C. Jennings
311 • Ecopoiesis • (1997) • novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
342 • People Came from Earth • (1999) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
352 • Fossils • (1999) • novelette by William H. Keith, Jr.
379 • A Martian Romance • (1999) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
394 • Dream of Venus • (2000) • novelette by Pamela Sargent
417 • At Tide’s Turning • (2001) • novelette by Laura J. Mixon
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