Five Stories About Alien Attempts to Reshape the Earth
Illustration for The War of the Worlds (Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 1906) The term “terraforming” was first used in Jack Williamson’s 1941 story “Collision Orbit.” As you know, Bob, terraforming is the process of transforming an environment hostile to Terrestrial life into a habitable environment. Humans have been doing this in a minor way for millennia, even before they started domesticating plants. But what we’re talking about here is going from “you die outside the dome” to “you can go outside, breathe the air, and plant a garden.” Sapients from other worlds might also wan...
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