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Annalee Newitz on 'The Terraformers' and future cities

Fiction Science

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Terraforming and Climate Change

The book takes place 60,000 years in the future. I do think it's realistic that humans are going to eventually try to set up shop off of Earth in some way. In my novel, I have a terraforming project which is being run by an interstellar real estate development corporation. It's basically the equivalent of billionaires in space. If you wanted to terraform a world, it would cost a lot of money and you would need to have a way to pay for it.

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