terraforming

• The OED has also given me credit for inventing "terraforming," a word for the art of transforming new planets for human habitation, in Seetee Ship and Seetee Shock. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
• The out-Sol population had grown exponentially over the course of two hundred years and now stood at almost a billion, most living on planets under giant domes that—when terraforming was complete a thousand years hence—would be dismantled amid great fanfare Of the five domes on Pantheon, the one housing the Cathedral was an anomaly. —  FSF,February2006
• We are beginning to rethink our old dream of "terraforming" Mars, and speculating instead on how best to adapt ourselves to suit the planet when we can, finally, reach there. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
• As a pilot, Defoe had to believe in terraforming --starships needed places to go. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
• "Glory might have been a new Eden for ambitious youngsters from the Home Systems -- but the task of terraforming was too real for them." —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995

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