Terraformation in fiction
The Terraformation one of the broad topics of the Science-fiction is illusté by various works. In its novel human Sowing , written in 1957, the writer James Blish defined it as follows: “Terraformation: technique consisting in working planets with the approximate image of the Earth so that the Land normal ones can live there”
As of the year 1912, during the publication of the first episode of its account, the Conquerors of Mars , the first volume of the Cycle of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs evoked the assumption that a machine could manufacture the air of the planère Mars and to make it thus livable. The idea is however presented there only to offer a bounce to the intrigue and no consequent planetary modification is still considered.
It is Olaf Stapledon, in its novel Last and First Men published in 1930, which designs the first the idea that one can modify the Biosphère of a planet in order to make his living conditions rather similar to those of the Earth so that it become colonizable. The word itself of “terraforming” was born under the feather from the American writer, Jack Williamson, in the news entitled Collision Ship , published in 1942 in the review Astounding Science-Fiction .
The works of this time suffer however from a lack of scientific knowledge and the reference today is undoubtedly the trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson: red Mars it, Mars the green one, Mars blue the , mainly the first two volumes where one attends the modification of planet.
Contrary, and rather than to await the thousands of years necessary to the complete creation of a terrestrial biosphere, it is the man himself which one can be tried to adapt to a specific medium by various medical operations or the addition of special devices. The writer James Blish, in human Sowing , forged the term of “panthropie” ( pantropy ) to indicate this operation. The novel of Robert Reed, the Large vessel , in which a population of engineers adapted to space is charged to maintain the hull external of the vessel, and the novel Man-more of Frederik Pohl, are examples of this “panthropie”.
List works
Literature- 1912: Conquerors of Mars , the first volume of the Cycle of Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- 1930: Last and First Men of Olaf Stapledon.
- 1945-1984: the Cycle of Ā ( the World of Ā, Players of Ā, End of Ā ), of A.E. van Vogt is held on already terraformée a Venus planet.
- 1950: Apple trees in the sky , of Robert A. Heinlein, tells the history of a boy emigrated on the farms of Ganymède.
- 1951: Sands of Mars , the first volume of the trilogy of the space of Arthur C. Clarke.
- 1955: the Martian Way , collection of news of Isaac Asimov.
- 1960: Surgeon of a planet , the first volume of Saga d' Argyre of Gilles d' Argyre (pseudonym of Gerard Klein).
- 1965: Dune , of Frank Herbert, the Fremen S and the planetologist Pardot Kynes modify the arid ecosystem of planet.
- 1969: the Island of dead the of Roger Zelazny.
- 1986-1988: Venus of the dreams and Venus of the shades of Pamela Sargent.
- 1988: Desolation road of Ian McDonald.
- 1992-1996: the Trilogy of Mars (red Mars it, Mars the green one, Mars the blue one), of Kim Stanley Robinson where one attends the colonization and the terraformation of planet.
Cinema
- 2000: The film Red planet , of Hanthony Hoffman evokes the terraformation of planet in order to constitute shelters for the land ones.
See also
- Topics of the science fiction
- Mars in fiction.
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