The Given Sea
The sea on Orrun was a gift, and the people who lived beside it never forgot to say so, because forgetting was how you got killed. This is the story of a gift and the interest it charged.
Stories tagged “terraforming”
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What the Ground Remembers
For six winters the terraforming moss did exactly what the manuals promised. That, the botanist would come to think, was the whole trouble.
The Improvement of Ossery
Fifty years ago Ossery grew itself a sky, and it worked. A reporter climbs the terrace for four hundred words and meets the man who kept the numbers.
The Equation of Green
The mathematics of terraforming Kepler-442b were elegant. Dr. Chen Yufei had spent eleven years refining them — a system of 4,700 differential equations that modeled atmospheric chemistry, ocean current formation, and soil microbiology.