num_pages: 348
description: When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, they're able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try to rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part. The fate of the planet lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world—Earth.
language: English
title: Terraforming Earth
titlecomplete: Terraforming Earth
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Survival, Dystopia, Hard Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 373
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Tom Doherty Associates (NYC)