In the pages of Odyssey magazine we have often discussed Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic series of novels and short stories about the terraforming of Mars. The trilogy of novels culminates in Blue Mars when terraforming allows the creation of rivers and oceans on the planet’s surface. Presumably the seeding of these bodies of water came about as a result of fish stocks originating in the oceans of Earth. Fish and other aquatic animals that came from the settler’s home world. Plan

#2 Ocean of Tears “Sharks are beautiful animals and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.” – Dr Sylvia Earle Humankind has been waging this was for centuries now, on both land and sea, but mostly at sea. A war in which no atrocity is seemingly beyond the pale, including the use of atomic weapons (eight nuclear detonations have taken place inside the ocean, w

“The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend…but also ocean acidification.” – Sylvia Earle In the July issue of Odyssey magazine we take a look at the rich seam of dystopian fiction depicting worlds that have been overcome by rising sea levels, taking Clive Simpson’s recently publish