I posted this on Reddit a while ago and it sparked some really good discussion and recommendations.
I really like The Expanse - as it doesn’t just discuss the attempted terraforming of Mars and the colonisation of the Main Asteroid Belt but also
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the way that these communities decline when abundant habitable planets are discovered, where life is much easier.
So yeah, what are your best examples?
The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. To continue your analgy, he goes so far as to describe the what the road is made of and how they made the paint on the road…