What is "terraformer"

Usage examples of "terraformer".

Robert Reed about a professional terraformer and the job that changes his life.

Speaking as a person, not a terraformer, I think she must be frighteningly important to you.

My hope is that I live long enough to see her mature, to become happy and normal, and perhaps gain some skills as a terraformer too.

Then she hired an old-school terraformer -- little more than a plumber -- to add one of those achingly slow rivers and falls, popular on every low-gravity world in the Realm.

World had rich ores, its iron and magnesium, aluminum and the rest sucked up by industries and terraformers alike.

In the flush of energy and confidence humanity was working back in to areas previously considered uninhabitable, and now Venus was attracting a crowd of new terraformers, who were following up on the gesture made by Sax Russell with the relocation of Mars’.

Already the cryptic hyperwave channels used by robots were abuzz with news that the archives and terraformers had been destroyed at last.

Followers of that same Amadiro later unleashed fleets of robotic terraformers, programmed to make the galaxy safe and welcoming for humanity, whatever the cost.

While two main factions of robots fought it out, the Auroran followers of Amadiro were free to unleash their pitiless terraformers, without interference or human guidance.

These new elements included the damping factors that had been missing from his equations for years--brain fever, orbital persuasion devices, as well as the long-hidden history of terraformers and archives that he had learned about in the Thumartin Nebula.

Buildings wore a coat of perpetual grime, and the terraformers had given up trying to keep them clean long ago.

At night there were glowing, flashing signs on the buildings to summon the terraformers to the pub for relaxation and recreation.

The terraformers had been proceeding in an organized and competent fashion.

And, to his annoyance, he found himself struck most by the way she'd paralleled his own thoughts, which had been leading him by a natural chain of association to the ancient terraformers, now dying out, who had bequeathed worlds like Santaclara to their human successors.

I am aware of your race's mystification at finding the mighty terraformers of prehistory reduced to a few scattered survivors.