The Terraformers
Jan 2023 · Sold by Tor Books
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From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.
Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her.
But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano.
As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.
A science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to our future, The Terraformers will take you on a journey spanning thousands of years and exploring the triumphs, strife, and hope that find us wherever we make our home.
"Brilliantly thoughtful, prescient, and gripping.”—Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries
Also by Annalee Newitz
Autonomous
The Future of Another Timeline
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her.
But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano.
As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.
A science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to our future, The Terraformers will take you on a journey spanning thousands of years and exploring the triumphs, strife, and hope that find us wherever we make our home.
"Brilliantly thoughtful, prescient, and gripping.”—Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries
Also by Annalee Newitz
Autonomous
The Future of Another Timeline
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.0
14 reviews
E.B. Gilligan
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February 28, 2024
Improbable as most of it is, Newitz brings her characters and her world to life so convincingly it's easy to be swept up and suspend disbelief. I think her "SASK-E" world in which corporate control has become so exaggerated works because in our present-day world, corporations have come to distort everything and exert destructive power. The story is about "people" of all kinds (beyond our definition of people) claiming their rights in a world in which corporations have decreed that only they have rights, and others are entitled to buy small contracted rights from them. The multigenerational saga begins partway through those people's journey to asserting their own rights. It was fun, on the side, recognizing the place names of La Ronge in Saskatchewan (where my husband's family had a wilderness cabin) and Saskatchewan itself, to look up the author's connection to the Canadian province. It turns out the Californian author had family up there and from the sound of her online remarks about the province and its people, she drew a little bit of inspiration in this sci fi title from them. "Sask" in Canada is known for giving us the first public health care program, our famous Medicare. The Saskatchewan premier, Tommy Douglas, who brought that to fruition is famous for championing the rights of working people over powerful monied interests.
Andrea Jones
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March 9, 2024
I don't know why so many esteemed publications and reviewers praise the humor of this author. If there's humor in this book, it's buried beneath the mountain of boring, inconsequential characters introduced each time you start to actually give a damn about any one of them. The characters in the novel have lives that span millenia, but no, reader, you don't get to follow a single one of them through their adventures; instead, you start with a humanoid character and end up with her great-great-great-grandchild... who is a train. Literally. The character is a TRAIN. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE TRAINS. That's not a metaphor. Humanoids are parents to things like trains. TRAINS.
Matthew Marden
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March 27, 2023
Good read! Interesting view of a possible future.
About the author
Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, and the novels The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.
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