backwards in the neighborhood of a contraterrene object. Reviews Groff Conklin gave Seetee Ship a mixed review, finding it "a good story if you can bear ploughing through pages of literary corn starch." P. Schuyler Miller noted that Williamson's rewrite of the stories into a more cohesive novel was "an excellent job of unification." New York Times reviewer Villiers Gersen, however, commented that "it is a pity that the quality of Stewart's writing . . . ranks only slightly above that of a comic-strip adventure." "Terraforming" The word "terraforming" was a neologism coined in Collision Orbit, although the concept itself had been suggested previously. Willliamson's definition of the term in the story differs significantly from the concept's later development; he applied it to a process for creating a shirt-sleeve environment on very small asteroids, by installing a fictional "paragravity" unit at their centers, thereby endowing them with Earth-level gravity and making them capable of retaining a breathable atmosphere. During the 1980s, American geographer Richard Cathcart successfully lobbied for formal recognition of the verb "to terraform." The word was added to the fourth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 1993. See also Terraforming in popular culture References Sources ISFDB listing: Seetee Ship 1951 short story collections Science fiction short story collections Fiction about asteroid mining Gnome Press books Science fiction short stories 1942 short stories