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Terraforming Earth

By Jack Williamson
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Publisher Description

Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible.

Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try and rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part.

The fate of the earth lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world--Earth.



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“This is the first book by Jack Williamson I have read, and I’m very impressed by the breadth and depth of this book. I was expecting a sci-fi book with maybe a thriller aspect and some aliens, but Williamson delivered something more sober and thoughtful. The Big Idea in this book is the idea that over millennia life may populate and repopulate the galaxy in a multitude of ways. There are some very interesting explorations of the human psyche from the perspective of clones of a team sent to repair the Earth’s ecosystem after cataclysmic events. They’re brought back multiple times when they’re called for, and their depth of character really helps bring some of the more interesting thought experiments Williamson presents to the reader in a digestible and humanizing way. They also give us a reason to feel invested in the world Williamson has created. This book was created by adding onto a short story Williamson wrote prior called Ultimate Earth, which was incorporated as a section of Terraforming Earth. This does feel a little disjointed when the reader encounters it, but the ideas and the presentation of them vastly outshadows this and carry the day.”

About Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson published his first short story in 1928, and he's been producing entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction ever since. The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America--the first was Robert A. Heinlein--Williamson has always been in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), anti-matter, and other cutting-edge science. A renaissance man, Williamson is a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction. He lives in Portales, New Mexico.

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