* Kim Stanley Robinson's RedMarsTrilogy is the definitive hard sci-fi account of terraforming, going into [[ShownTheirWork exhaustive detail]] about Martian terraforming. He portrays a process that runs for more two hundred years over the course of the three novels, which themselves are named in allusion to key steps in the terraforming project (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). One of the ongoing themes of the series is the increasing conflict between the Reds, who want to maintain the pristine beauty of Mars, and the Greens, who want a second Earth. The novels strongly imply that neither outcome is possible; [[spoiler:Mars will change the terraformers just as they change it.]] In the final installment (Blue Mars), [[spoiler:we see humans expand out to live on the moons of the gas giants, and inward to establish a constantly-moving city on Mercury.]]
* The standalone novel 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson picks up a hundred years after the final installment of the Mars Trilogy, showing humans living throughout the solar system (the main character is a native of Mercury). A minor (but crucial) plotline deals with the terraforming of the planet Venus. In the process of terraforming, Robinson's solar system has become an endless playground for sci-fi tropes - [[spoiler:giant robots scooping up frozen carbon dioxide on Venus]], [[spoiler:'hanging ships' floating in the clouds of Saturn]] and [[spoiler:fully-tented moons that physically hold their atmospheres in]].

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* Many of the planets in LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' have to be terraformed to a greater [[hottip:*:Komarr: four hundred years of domed living, with another four hundred to come, while the solar mirror array and genetically engineered plants make the atmosphere breathable and warm enough]] or lesser [[hottip:*:Barrayar: dump Earth soil and Earth-descended plants in place and burn away the native stuff; well, at least until the butter bugs start working]] extent.
* In LarryNiven's KnownSpace universe, most life-bearing planets were seeded with life by the Slavers; not to terraform, but simply to grow enough food for their vast and inefficiently-run empire. Specifically most planets only had a strain of yeast their prey animals enjoyed eating. When the Slavers War ends with the Suicide Night that [[OmnicidalManiac kills all life]] on the level of lobsters and higher in the entire Galaxy, the majority of life evolves comes from their yeast farms, which explains why we are biochemically compatible.

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* Many of the planets in Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' have to be terraformed to a greater [[hottip:*:Komarr: four hundred years of domed living, with another four hundred to come, while the solar mirror array and genetically engineered plants make the atmosphere breathable and warm enough]] or lesser [[hottip:*:Barrayar: dump Earth soil and Earth-descended plants in place and burn away the native stuff; well, at least until the butter bugs start working]] extent.
* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' universe, most life-bearing planets were seeded with life by the Slavers; not to terraform, but simply to grow enough food for their vast and inefficiently-run empire. Specifically most planets only had a strain of yeast their prey animals enjoyed eating. When the Slavers War ends with the Suicide Night that [[OmnicidalManiac kills all life]] on the level of lobsters and higher in the entire Galaxy, the majority of life evolves comes from their yeast farms, which explains why we are biochemically compatible.

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