Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

Gardner Dozois

Apr 2011 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

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:

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

These 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.

About the author

Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011 and has received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.