09 August 2023

The Terraformers

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz is the story of creating a habitable planet out of a rock spinning in space. 

The Environmental Rescue Teams job on the planet SASK-E is to keep things in balance. Teams through the ages have been guiding the planet through stages from oxygen production to soil enrichment to plant growth. SASK-E is now in a Pleistocene-like era.

Destry, an Environmental Research Ranger, in the year 59,006 is charged with caring for the planets and helping when the ecosystems need it. 

While accompanying another ranger to the south of the main continent, they discover a city that should not exist - a people who should be impossible. This will make Destry rethink all she knows about SASK-E and Verdance, the corporation who owns the planet. 

Newitz has written a great environmental science fiction story that will make you think differently about our world and all kinds of people. This is a great book.

Newitz, Annalee. (2023). The Terraformers. New York: TOR.

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