Terraform: Difference between revisions

* In the [[CoDominium]] universe, New Caledonia is a formerly barren world still being terraformed; for already life-bearing planets, the process is more a matter of altering the local ecology to support Earth life (which is usually grossly simplified for story purposes).

* ''Riverworld'' is set on a planet terraformed into one big twisting river valley, to maximize the surface area ideal for human habitation.

* Dan Simmons' ''Hyperion'' universe has in its backstory humanity terraforming all their worlds, regularly committing genocide against sentient indigenous species. This bothers pretty much no one, [[Humans Are Bastards|human]], [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AI]], or transhuman.

* The major theme of ''[[Dune]]'' is the back-and-forth attempts by humanity to terraform [[Single Biome Planet|the desert planet Arrakis]] inhabited by the various life-cycle stages of sandworms (which create an extremely necessary commodity) and by the (non-sentient) sandtrout phase of the worm species to counter terraform Arrakis (and later other worlds) ''back into desert''.