The Terraformers

by Annalee Newitz

COLONIALISM. Definition: turning bodies into cages that no one has the keys for. —Billy-Ray Belcourt

You cannot measure a person’s intentions, but you can measure their contributions. —Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

Private property is the smallest unit of warfare. —The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

H. sapiens always figures out a new way to implement caste systems. —The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

Instead of a virgin Pleistocene frontier, Sasky was like every other planet that Earth people had occupied—a chunk of rock and biomass, stolen and re-stolen so many times that even its humblest microbes were of decidedly sketchy provenance.