Terraformers (2023)

The people preparing Sask-E for sale discover that their employer’s plans depend on deciding which inhabitants count as people and which may be discarded. Newitz follows those disputes across generations, with ecological care and transport becoming questions of political participation. Read for a colonisation story in which the workers and altered beings making a habitable world have claims of their own. The broad time jumps shift the emphasis from one founder’s achievement to the society that has to live with it.