My new novel The Terraformers explores what you would possibly embrace – and miss – should you have been constructing an Earth-like planet. I spoke to some scientists to see what would possibly work, says Annalee Newitz
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| Columnist
18 January 2023
IF YOU might construct an Earth-like planet, what would you permit out of the design specs? That is the query I requested a handful of mildly amused scientists as I started to jot down my newest novel, The Terraformers.
It is the story of a gaggle of development specialists who’re working for a shady interplanetary actual property growth firm. Their mandate is to create a branded Pleistocene expertise like that on palaeolithic Earth 15,000 years in the past, for folks in Homo sapiens our bodies who crave that genuine Earth je ne sais quoi.
The factor is, if you’re …