Question: The terraforming novel with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon was written by an author best known for what story series ?

text: Terraforming in popular culture
Literature

Terraforming is well represented in popular culture, usually in the form of science fiction. While many stories involving interstellar travel feature planets already suited to habitation by humans and supporting their own indigenous life, some authors prefer to address the unlikeliness of such a concept by instead detailing the means by which humans have converted inhospitable worlds to ones capable of supporting life through artificial means. Author Jack Williamson is credited with inventing and popularizing the term terraform. In July 1942, under the pseudonym Will Stewart, Williamson published a science fiction novella entitled Collision Orbit in Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. The series was later published as two novels, Seetee Shock (1949) and Seetee Ship (1951). American geographer Richard Cathcart successfully lobbied for formal recognition of the verb to terraform, and it was first included in the fourth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 1993.
Date Title Author Planet/Moon Notes
1898 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Earth When the Martians invade the Earth , they bring with them some red weed .The weed starts to kill off Earth indigenous plant life and multiply rapidly
1910 « La Journée d'un Parisien au XXI siècle » ( A Day of a Parisian in the 21st Century ) Octave Béliard Moon The Moon is gradually given an atmosphere , and vegetation is acclimated in order to turn the Earth 's satellite into a natural reserve or sanctuary for endangered species , but also to allow human colonization
1927 The Last Judgment J . B. S. Haldane Venus An essay that proposes how life on Earth might end and speculates on the evolution of humanity , space exploration and colonization , and adaptation to new environments . Venus is proposed as a new home
1930 Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon Venus Following up where Haldane left off , Stapledon 's future history provides the first example in fiction in which Venus is modified , after a long and destructive war with the original inhabitants . Stapledon imagines a native Venus that is covered in oceans
1950 Farmer in the Sky Robert A. Heinlein Ganymede A family emigrates from Earth to the Jovian moon Ganymede , which is being terraformed . Farmer in the Sky is a historically significant novel in relation to terraforming in popular culture , as it was one of the first to take the subject more seriously than simple fantasy , portraying terraforming with scientific and mathematical considerations
1951 The Sands of Mars Arthur C. Clarke Mars First instance of Martian terraforming . Clarkes fictional methods for terraforming the planet include generating heat by igniting Phobos into a second sun , and growing plants that break down the Martian sands in order to release oxygen
1952 The Martian Way Isaac Asimov Mars Terraforming of Mars using ice from Saturn 's rings
1954 The Big Rain Poul Anderson Venus Terraforming Venus . Anderson considers the great time scale inherent in planetary engineering and its effects upon society . Later , the title ( big rain ) became associated with scientific terraforming models
1958 The Snows of Ganymede Poul Anderson Ganymede Terraforming of Ganymede
1969 Isle of the Dead Roger Zelazny Illyria Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century who becomes a worldscaper - a terraformer with godlike powers
1961 Second Ending James White Fomalhaut IV Fomalhaut , the fourth planet was secretly terraformed by robots over millions of years
1984 Greening of Mars James Lovelock Michael Allaby Mars One of the most influential science fiction novels on the actual science of terraforming . The novel explores the formation and evolution of planets , the origin of life , and Earth 's biosphere . Spacecraft are illustrated in a realistic manner , and terraforming models in the book foreshadowed future debates regarding the goals of terraforming
1986-1988 Venus of Dreams Venus of Shadows Pamela Sargent Venus Terraforming of Venus
1992 Mining the Oort Frederik Pohl Mars Terraforming by diverting comets from the Oort cloud to Mars
1992-1999 Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson Mars Three novels ( plus one collection of short stories ) provide a lengthy description of terraforming Mars spanning centuries . The novels represent contemporary scientific and philosophical developments in the field , and also pay homage to the already existing fictional literature related to Mars
2011 Terra Formars ( テラフォーマーズ ) written by Yū Sasuga illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana Mars In an attempt to colonize Mars , 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface
2012 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson Much of the Solar System A novel set one century after the future timeline of the Mars Trilogy , centred on a pair of characters born on Mercury and Titan . Many elements of the novel deal with living in space and the colonisation of moons and asteroids throughout the solar system , but one important subplot centres on the ongoing terraforming of Venus