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'''Remnant Population''' is a science fiction novel by [[Elizabeth Moon]]. | '''Remnant Population''' is a science fiction novel by [[Elizabeth Moon]]. | ||
''Remnant Population'' is a fabulous book about an old woman on a planetary colony. When the "Company" moves out, she decides to ditch the company and stay on the planet. She encounters an intelligent native population, and becomes their representative to human society. The characterization of this old woman | ''Remnant Population'' is a fabulous book about an old woman on a planetary colony. When the "Company" moves out, she decides to ditch the company and stay on the planet. She encounters an intelligent native population, and becomes their representative to human society. The characterization of this old woman — her testiness and irritability, the way she sheds the strictures of a sexist ageist society and releases her own creativity, her ultimate humanity — is marvelous. The disdain with which society treats older women, and working-class people, is apparent; and yet Moon avoids a polemic while making you love the irascible protagonist. | ||
[[Category:Works of science fiction]] | [[Category:Works of science fiction]] | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
[[Category:1996 publications]] | [[Category:1996 publications]] | ||
Revision as of 19:21, 25 April 2007
Remnant Population is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon.
Remnant Population is a fabulous book about an old woman on a planetary colony. When the "Company" moves out, she decides to ditch the company and stay on the planet. She encounters an intelligent native population, and becomes their representative to human society. The characterization of this old woman — her testiness and irritability, the way she sheds the strictures of a sexist ageist society and releases her own creativity, her ultimate humanity — is marvelous. The disdain with which society treats older women, and working-class people, is apparent; and yet Moon avoids a polemic while making you love the irascible protagonist.