“I really did try to have a very grounded, scientifically accurate approach to ecosystems. Apart from a fanciful invention called a “gravity mesh,” which allows some characters to fly, Newitz-who is also an award-winning writer of non-fiction-grounded the story in science. Newitz’s heroes are members of the Environmental Rescue Team, an interplanetary force of first responders and environmental engineers who keep ecosystems in balance and stage disaster rescues. The plot tracks the nitty-gritty of building complex things-environments, relationships, governments-as Sask-E evolves over thousands of years into a pseudo replica of Pleistocene Earth.
In their new novel, The Terraformers(Tor Books, 2023), Annalee Newitz leaps 60,000 years into the future, redefining ideas of peoplehood, democracy and love.Ī diverse array of characters-hominids, animals, and objects that in 2023 are still considered inanimate, such as doors and trains-are “people” in this multi-generational story about a corporation terraforming their privately-held planet Sask-E and their workers (which the corporation owns as part of their “proprietary ecosystem development kit,”) who want to turn Sask-E into a public, democratically-governed territory.
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