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Annalee Newitz on 'The Terraformers' and future cities

Fiction Science

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Is There Anything You Really Wanted to Put in This Book?

The book where the novel starts the planet has already been terraformed for a while. It's in the process of being developed by real estate companies and each company has a different idea about how they want to manage the land. One of the really fun and fantastical parts of this book is that I imagine that synthetic biology has brought us to a point where a lot of non-human animals are also people. We meet naked mole rats who have opinions and angry worms.

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