New Earths

In some areas this is probably the ONLY book to explore this content. You can't get more "far thinking" than this! The challenge of restructuring other planets: " ... from releasing the deep-buried, frozen waters of Mars through a 'greenhouse effect' to realigning the moons of Jupiter and creating new moons by transporting asteroids... James Oberg, mission flight controller at the NASA Johnson Space Center, examines the specific problems awaiting us... he also describes improvements that can be carried out on Earth, from increasing fresh-water supplies to offsetting the coming ice age." We need more thinkers of limitless possiblities, and this author is one of them. Highly recommended for every reader, teacher, student, worker in astronomy and earth sciences. The reading level is fine for laymen readers of science, too, from high school on up.

This is the first-ever non-fiction treatment of 'terraforming', altering other planets to make them habitable by Earth life. It draws heavily on science fiction and speculation. The book is a classic, and was well received by reviewers at the time[...].In later years other writers went beyond the book in technical details, but never in its breadth of creative vision. And it still has some really cute fictional vignettes of future terraforming activities to head each chapter.A worthy addition to a space enthusiast's library.