By Kim Stanley Robinson. A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.

By James Garvey. Earth is dying and Mars is humanity's hope.

By Isaac Asimov. Many planets have been terraformed and colonized by a powerful race of humans known as Spacers.

By Arthur C. Clarke. Addresses the hard physical and scientific impacts of living on Mars.

By Olaf Stapledon. One of the earliest references to terraforming occurs in this book where electrolysis is used on the global sea of Venus to fabricate oxygen.

By Pamela Sargent. A determined female protagonist's single goal is to make the poisonous atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans.

By Robert A. Heinlein A father and son leave an overpopulated Earth and become colonists on the third moon of Jupiter, Ganymede.

By Poul Anderson. A member of the Order of Planetary Engineers is sent to survey a distant moon.

By David Gerrold. An introspective novel where most of the story takes place after the terraforming of a planet in another solar system--however the terraforming events are well laid out.

By Roger Zelazny. The protagonist of this story studies to become a telepath and worldscaper--someone who can create and terraform worlds. In this novel, terraforming is an artform.