How a planet became a character in my new novel

My new novel The Terraformers explores what to include and what to exclude when building an Earth-like planet. I talked to some scientists to see what works. Annalee Newitz

To Annalee Newitz

If you could build an Earth-like planet, what would you leave out of your design specs? That’s the question I asked a few amused scientists when I started writing my latest novel, The Terraformers. .

This is the story of a group of construction professionals who work for a shady interplanetary real estate development company. Their mission is to create a branded Pleistocene experience for people around the world, much like Paleolithic Earth 15,000 years ago. clever person A body that craves that real earth i don’t know what.

The problem is if you…