| 1942 Astounding Sci. Fiction July 90/1
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Rick was impressed to discover that Pallas, capital of all the Mandate, was not yet completely terraformed—although the city and a score of mining centers had their own paragravity units a few miles beneath the surface, there was as yet no peegee installation at the center of gravity.
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| 1942 Astounding Sci. Fiction July 82/1
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He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.
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| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver v.xiv. 154
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Their latest crackpot scheme is a joint project with the VietAms and Israel-APU to try to terraform Venus.
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| 1986 W. Strieber & J. Kunetka Nature's End (1987) i. 50
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The Soviets terraform Mars while we Indians labor here on earth to reconstruct our own ecology.
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| 1988 A. M. Steele in G. Dozois Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991) 3
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Well, it's no secret that life at Arsia Base was rough. Always will be rough, or at least until someone gets around to terraforming Mars, which is a wild-eyed fantasy if you ask me.
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| 1990 Thrust Winter 6/2
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Despite the certainty of many Oankali that the human ‘contradiction’ will inevitably lead to violent extinction, they will terraform Mars to provide a new start.
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| 1991 O. S. Card Xenocide viii. 138
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So they can take it to an inhabited world, of course. Instead of finding an uninhabited planet to terraform and colonize.
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| 1992 F. Pohl Mining Oort (1993) 69,
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I studied engineering at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and I thought terraforming Mars from the Oort was the biggest, most wonderful idea anybody ever had ‥
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| 1992 Waldenbooks Hailing Frequencies 14/1
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Venus had been terraformed, more or less.
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| 1992 Locus Aug. 4/2
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The natural impulse of most of the people there is to terraform the planet, but there's going to be a certain minority of people who are going to fall in love with the planet as it is now.
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| 1993 J. Brunner Muddle Earth 114
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You'd have enough energy not just to terraform the nearly habitable planet, but make it over completely.
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| 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity 3737
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Celeste McConnell had pitched to him her incredible proposal for terraforming Mars.
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| 1993 J. Brosnan Opoponax Invasion (1994) 98
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I'm a third-generation Martian. When my family moved there the planet was still being terraformed.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars ii.80
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We must terraform only Mars, but ourselves.
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| 1994 J. Barnes Mother of Storms (1995) iii. 385
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He has great fun thinking of a dozen ways to turn Jupiter into a midget sun and terraform it major moons, and working out which nations to settle where.
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| 1994 SFRA Rev. July–Aug. 38
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Petaybee is a planet of ice and snow, terraformed into barely habitable conditions.
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| 1994 Preliminary Schedule Main Events SFRA Conf. 10 May 2
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Pam Sargent's Venus of Dreams : Terraforming Utopia.
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| 1998 W. Shatner et al. Spectre iii. 53
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He recalled that the moon had been terraformed in this new age.
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