Farmer in the Sky is a historically significant novel in relation to terraforming in popular culture, as it was one of the first to take the subject more seriously than simple fantasy, portraying terraforming with scientific and mathematical considerations. Stapledon imagines a native Venus that is covered in oceans.Ī family emigrates from Earth to the Jovian moon Ganymede, which is being terraformed. įollowing up where Haldane left off, Stapledon's future history provides the first example in fiction in which Venus is modified, after a long and destructive war with the original inhabitants. The Moon is gradually given an atmosphere, and vegetation is acclimated in order to turn the Earth's satellite into a natural reserve or sanctuary for endangered species, but also to allow human colonization.Īn essay that proposes how life on Earth might end and speculates on the evolution of humanity, space exploration and colonization, and adaptation to new environments. «La Journée d'un Parisien au XXI e siècle» ("A Day of a Parisian in the 21st Century") The weed starts to kill off Earth indigenous plant life and multiply rapidly. When the Martians invade the Earth, they bring with them some red weed. 1.1 Terraforming of fictional planets in literature.American geographer Richard Cathcart successfully lobbied for formal recognition of the verb "to terraform", and it was first included in the fourth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 1993. The series was later published as two novels, Seetee Shock (1949) and Seetee Ship (1951). In July 1942, under the pseudonym Will Stewart, Williamson published a science fiction novella entitled " Collision Orbit" in Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. While many stories involving interstellar travel feature planets already suited to habitation by humans and supporting their own indigenous life, some authors prefer to address the unlikeliness of such a concept by instead detailing the means by which humans have converted inhospitable worlds to ones capable of supporting life through artificial means.Īuthor Jack Williamson is credited with inventing and popularizing the term "terraform".
Terraforming is well represented in contemporary literature, usually in the form of science fiction, as well as in popular culture.
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