I’ve got a guest post up at John Scalzi’s “Whatever” ‘blog, part of his series of other writers discussing the “big ideas” in their books. For this entry I decided to talk about my ideas for Venus terraforming — or, as I dubbed it in The Ishtar Deception, “cryoforming.” The capsule summary is that making Venus earthlike is extraordinarily difficult, so maybe we should settle for some transformation that’s relatively simple and allows us to use the planet’s resources. My guest post goes into more detail. Check it out!