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the Vesta Zone, a cloud of terraria forming a single cooperative

Aymara, an amazonia with an interior completely overgrown with cloud forest

Tatar Soul, a steppes grassland where people speak a resuscitated Indo-European

The Copenhagen Interpretation, a canal town with a gift economy

The Zanzibar Cat, an anarchist savanna with thousands of big cats and no interior buildings at all

Arabia Deserta, a desert occupied by British travelers

Aspen, a skiing paradise

unnamed prison asteroids with robot guards

Hermaphrodite, where all permanent residents are gynandromorphs and androgyns

Saint George, a social terrarium in which the men think they are living in a Mormon polygamy, while the women consider it a lesbian world with a small percentage of male lesbians

asteroids hollowed not into cylindrical terraria but rather warrens, hives, caves, pits, hotels, etc.

The Maldives, an aquarium recreating the drowned islands; Micronesia, likewise; Tuvalu, likewise; all the drowned islands of Earth are reproduced in this fashion

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 34, the last of thirty-four terraria using versions of the template of this great biome

extremophile terraria, deadly to humans but hospitable to growth of organisms creating medicines and inoculants

doomed biomes, established with odd parameters and then sealed off like test tubes

The Little Prince, an outie terrarium, tent-bubbled with its atmosphere bluing its edges

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider

Miranda, the smashed-together moon of Uranus, now a Trojan freely orbiting the sun, completely tent-bubbled, its deep canyons and stupendous ridges filigreed with snow drifting down in the low g, all Swiss architecture, a dream of the Alps

Icarus, a fliers’ world, lit by a sunline in its floor to keep the air clear

Source of the Peach Blossom Stream, a Tang dynasty recreation that looks like a Chinese landscape painting come to life

Miocene terraria, Cretaceous terraria, Jurassic terraria, Precambrian terraria

Water Drop, an aquarium filled entirely with water and ocean creatures

Sequoia Kings Canyon, an infolded Sierra Nevada of California

—and so on. Estimated nineteen thousand occupied asteroids and moons