Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Little, Brown, 2023)

New Books in Literature · Jan 5, 2023 · 41m

In their new novel, The Terraformers (Little, Brown, 2023), Annalee Newitz leaps 60,000 years into the future, redefining ideas of peoplehood, democracy and love A diverse array of characters—hominids, animals, and objects that in 2023 are still considered inanimate, such as doors and trains—are “people” in this multi-generational story about a corporation terraforming their privately-held planet Sask-E and their workers (which the corporation owns as part of their “proprietary ecosystem development kit,”) who want to turn Sask-E into a public, democratically-governed territory. The plot…