Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

by Gardner Dozois (Editor)

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When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Philip Jennings * William H. Kieth * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ian McDonald * Richard McKenna * Laura Mixon * G. David Nordley * Robert Reed * Kim Stanley Robinson * Pamela Sargent * Cordwainer show more Smith * Bruce Sterling * John Varley * Roger ZelaznyThese are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires. show less

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Gardner Dozois was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 23, 1947. After working as an Army journalist, he became a science fiction and fantasy editor and author. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and editor of Asimov's from 1984 until 2004. His work as an editor received more than 40 Hugo Awards, 40 Nebula show more Awards, and 30 Locus Awards. He received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004. He wrote books including Strangers and short stories including The Peacemaker and Morning Child, which won the Nebula Award for Short Story in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He also collaborated with George R. R. Martin on a series of themed anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, Dangerous Women, and Rogues. In 2011, Dozois was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died on May 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Anderson, Poul (Contributor)
Baxter, Stephen (Contributor)
Benford, Gregory (Contributor)
Clarke, Arthur C. (Contributor)
Haldeman, Joe (Contributor)
Jennings, Phillip C. (Contributor)
Keith Jr, William H. (Contributor)
Landis, Geoffrey A. (Contributor)
McDonald, Ian (Contributor)
McKenna, Richard (Contributor)
Mixon, Laura J. (Contributor)
Nordley, G. David (Contributor)
Reed, Robert (Contributor)
Robinson, Kim Stanley (Contributor)
Sargent, Pamela (Contributor)
Sheffield, Charles (Contributor)
Smith, Cordwainer (Contributor)
Sterling, Bruce (Contributor)
Varley, John (Contributor)
Zelazny, Roger (Contributor)

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Bonestell, Chesley (Cover artist)

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2001

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.0876208358Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fictionScience fictionCollections and anthologiesAnthologiesThemes and subjectsHumanityHistory and politics
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