Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

By Gardner Dozois

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312275706
• ISBN13: 9780312275709
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.2" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

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A theme anthology that is specifically to do with terraforming, despite the somewhat more general title. It is set out in chronological order of story publication, from the fifties up to the late twentieth century. Dozois points out he has narrowed it down to actual physical terraforming projects - these often being of Mars and Venus. A reasonable book, with Sheffield's 'Out Of Copyright' the highlight, and probably the most different, along with Sterling. Worldmakers : The Big Rain - Poul Anderson Worldmakers : When the People Fell - Cordwainer Smith Worldmakers : Before Eden - Arthur C. Clarke Worldmakers : Hunter Come Home - Richard McKenna Worldmakers : The Keys to December - Roger Zelazny Worldmakers : Retrograde Summer - John Varley Worldmakers : Shall We Take a Little Walk? - Gregory Benford Worldmakers : The Catharine Wheel - Ian McDonald Worldmakers : Sunken Gardens - Bruce Sterling Worldmakers : Out of Copyright - Charles Sheffield Worldmakers : A Place with Shade - Robert Reed Worldmakers : Dawn Venus - G. David Nordley Worldmakers : For White Hill - Joe Haldeman Worldmakers : The Road to Reality - Phillip C. Jennings Worldmakers : Ecopoiesis - Geoffrey A. Landis Worldmakers : People Came from Earth - Stephen Baxter Worldmakers : Fossils - William H. Keith Jr. Worldmakers : A Martian Romance - Kim Stanley Robinson Worldmakers : Dream of Venus - Pamela Sargent Worldmakers : At Tide's Turning - Laura J. Mixon Unman Venusian anti-Collective tanking. 4 out of 5 Chinese Venusian megadrop. 3 out of 5 Venusian botany on the run. 3 out of 5 This Thanasis not so bad. 3.5 out of 5 Cold place defense. 3 out of 5 Clone twin meeting. 3 out of 5 Artifact universe laws a bastich. 3.5 out of 5 Last Ares Express. 3.5 out of 5 Regal terraforming judgement. 4 out of 5 Dead egghead clone draft team terraforming match winning streak so organised, you'd think it's a crime. 4.5 out of 5 Crazy changer chick. 3.5 out of 5 Station dive land claim, son. Plus wife. 4 out of 5 Artists try for retro inspiration. 2.5 out of 5 Suppressionist Blue World surprise wakeup. 3.5 out of 5 High pressure fizzy freeze explosion. 3.5 out of 5 Remnant population, lunar style. 3 out of 5 Amortal risk. 3.5 out of 5 Possibly Dead Mars. 3 out of 5 Project mindtour. 3 out of 5 Project Iceflame clone single recovery. 3.5 out of 5 3.5 out of 5