| 1942 J. Williamson in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 85/2
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Smaller‥. Less than a tenth the mass. There's plenty of time to land a terraforming crew, to install a new-type directional drive. It's a job for the guard.
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| 1942 J. Williamson in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 87/2
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But the directional space drive; the negative safety field, to guard a ship's hull from spatial drift; the peegee reducer, that broke up compounds by direct selective attraction, yielding oxygen to breathe and iron for construction out of common hematite; the peegee terraforming unit, that held man and his precious blanket of air to any tiny rock—those were all unexpected gifts, amazing even the engineer.
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| 1979 J. Oberg Farming Planets in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 15
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The word for this awesome concept is terra-forming.
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| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver iv.x. 107
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Have only allowed the Pring to colonize class A worlds, devoid of life and requiring terraforming, but free of use restrictions by the Institutes of Tradition and Migration.
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| 1985 K. S. Robinson in G. Dozois Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991) 209
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The terraforming is just part of it—the visible sign of a history of exploitation.
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| 1988 C. J. Cherryh Cyteen 41
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Terraforming, while wreaking havoc on many native species, has provided a unique opportunity to study interface zones and compare adaptive changes in Terrene and indigenous species.
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| 1991 Locus Sept. 19/1
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She finds there—an explanation not only of the mystery of the planoforming (McAuley's term for ‘terraforming’) of P'thrsn but of the nature and multimillion-year history of the Enemy, now known as the Alea.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars ii. 88
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The treaty also says we have to take measures to prevent the disruption of planetary environments, I think is how they put it. It's in Article Seven. That seems to me to expressly forbid the terraforming that so many of you are talking about.
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| 1993 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Prince of Sparta 49
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Terraforming: techniques whereby an extrasolar planet is rendered more habitable for humans and/or other Terran life.
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| 1993 G. Bear Moving Mars 391
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The planets are rich with minerals, one is Earth-sized and has a reducing atmosphere but no detectable life ‥ Ripe for terraforming.
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| 1993 I.M. Banks Against Dark Background 216
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‘Pretty thin air.’‘Getting thinner all the time,’ she agreed. ‘Unbreathable in another thousand years; crap terraforming ‥’
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| 1993 Locus XXXI. iv. 23/1
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The first century of Martian terraforming builds on the efforts of the pioneers.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars 97
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And all of it completely empty, rocky, untouched, primordial—the volcanic rock as bare as if cooled the week before—nothing at all of humanity in it—no sign of terraforming.
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| 1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 66
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At one time, Phobos had been regarded as an invaluable source of raw materials for space-construction projects, but Martian conservationists—perhaps feeling guilty about the steady terraforming of their own planet—had managed to prevent this.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) 78
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That seems to me to expressly forbid the terraforming that so many of you are talking about.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars ii. 80
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That seems to me to expressly forbid the terraforming that so many of you are talking about.
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| 1993 Locus June 59/1
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Little more than a scaffolding on which to hand a whole catalog of classic Clarkean inventions and digressions‥the terraforming of Mars.
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| 1995 P. David Captain's Daughter ii. v. 48
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After all, terraforming techniques were being used on far-off worlds to transform them into Earth-like environments.
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| 1996 SFX May 85/1
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The people have just been the backdrop, the science of Mars' terraforming the main focus.
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| 1999 A. Thomson Through Alien Eyes (2000) ii. 68
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Burnham has official ties to HumanSpace, and the Terraforming Foundation. Unofficially, she has ties to several pronatalist groups including a couple with terrorist leanings.
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| 1999 Interzone Jan. 31/3,
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I invented the term ‘terraforming,’ which seems to have gotten into the language—at least into the dictionaries.
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| 2001 Locus June 17/2
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Recruits‥work special projects, which in this case is the terraforming of a planet called Downside.
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