| 1942 Astounding Sci. Fiction July 85/2 | 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. |
| 1942 Astounding Sci. Fiction July 87/2 | 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 rockthose were all unexpected gifts, amazing even the engineer. |
| 1979 J. Oberg Farming Planets in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 15 | The word for this awesome concept is terra-forming. |
| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver iv.x. 107 | 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. |
| 1985 K. S. Robinson in G. Dozois Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991) 209 | The terraforming is just part of itthe visible sign of a history of exploitation. |
| 1988 C. J. Cherryh Cyteen 41 | 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. |
| 1991 Locus Sept. 19/1 | She finds therean 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. |
| 1993 Locus Oct. iv. 23/1 | The first century of Martian terraforming builds on the efforts of the pioneers. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 97 | And all of it completely empty, rocky, untouched, primordialthe volcanic rock as bare as if cooled the week beforenothing at all of humanity in itno sign of terraforming. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars ii. 80 | That seems to me to expressly forbid the terraforming that so many of you are talking about. |
| 1993 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Prince of Sparta 49 | Terraforming: techniques whereby an extrasolar planet is rendered more habitable for humans and/or other Terran life. |
| 1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 66 | At one time, Phobos had been regarded as an invaluable source of raw materials for space-construction projects, but Martian conservationistsperhaps feeling guilty about the steady terraforming of their own planethad managed to prevent this. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars ii. 88 | 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. |
| 1993 G. Bear Moving Mars 391 | The planets are rich with minerals, one is Earth-sized and has a reducing atmosphere but no detectable life ? Ripe for terraforming. |
| 1993 Locus June 59/1 | Little more than a scaffolding on which to hand a whole catalog of classic Clarkean inventions and digressions?the terraforming of Mars. |
| 1993 I. M. Banks Against Dark Background 216 | Pretty thin air.Getting thinner all the time, she agreed. Unbreathable in another thousand years; crap terraforming ? |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) 78 | That seems to me to expressly forbid the terraforming that so many of you are talking about. |
| 1995 P. David Captain's Daughter ii. v. 48 | After all, terraforming techniques were being used on far-off worlds to transform them into Earth-like environments. |
| 1996 SFX May 85/1 | The people have just been the backdrop, the science of Mars' terraforming the main focus. |
| 1999 Interzone Jan. 31/3, | I invented the term terraforming, which seems to have gotten into the languageat least into the dictionaries. |
| 1999 A. Thomson Through Alien Eyes (2000) ii. 68 | Burnham has official ties to HumanSpace, and the Terraforming Foundation. Unofficially, she has ties to several pronatalist groups including a couple with terrorist leanings. |
| 2001 Locus June 17/2 | Recruits?work special projects, which in this case is the terraforming of a planet called Downside. |
