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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey; Reprint edition (September 30, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 034546219X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345462190
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (155 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA thought-provoking delight!
By Nina M. Osier on February 3, 2005
Format: Paperback
When her husband Humberto died, Ofelia became her son's dependent in the eyes of Sims Bancorp. Forty years after she helped to found Colony 3245.12, all of her children but Barto are dead along with their father; and Ofelia tolerates her domineering daughter-in-law Rosara as best she can. When Sims Bancorp sends a ship to withdraw the colonists, after deciding to abandon its unprofitable colony and cede its license to the world that Ofelia now considers her home, the company demands extra payment for relocating the useless old woman who will probably die in cryosleep, anyway. Luckily for Ofelia, though, she's scheduled for a later shuttle than Barto and Rosara. When she slips away from the village to hide in the nearby, still untouched alien forest, the only two people who would protest her absence are already in the cryotanks. Soon the ship is gone, leaving Ofelia alone. And that's just fine with her.

The old woman revels in her solitude, because this is the first time in her long life that she's been free from the demands and restrictions placed on her by others. She tends her garden, competently maintains the village's power plant, and laughs when she throws her last pair of detested shoes into the recycler. Then another company's ship enters orbit, and starts to insert a colony at a location thousands of miles from Ofelia's village. At which time she, and the newly arrived colonists, find out that this world has indigenous intelligent life after all.

The friend who recommended this book to me was right. Ofelia, a person who had little worth to start with in her society's eyes - a housewife and mother, educated no more than necessary to perform her expected tasks - has no value at all now, in age and physical infirmity.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsUnusual Topic but Insightful
By Phome on December 9, 2002
Format: Hardcover
"Remnant Population" is a beautiful story about an "old woman" whose path of discovery is set in a SF context.
At 70, Ofelia is considered to be too old to be of any use to the Colony which had settled on the planet some 40 years earlier, but have now been told to move on. Ofelia knows this, and does not look forward to the move in cryopreservation, which is likely to kill her. As an elderly woman, she is no longer appreciated by her fellow colony, rather - she is a liability.
But Ofelia has her own plans. If she can only convince the colony to leave her behind ... all she wants to do is tend to her garden and be left in peace. No one to tell her what to do. No one to tell her what to wear. No one to chide her. She decides to hide herself when the colony moves out. She knows that they won't look long for an old woman ... and she's right.
Soon, Ofelia learns to set herself free. As the only one remaining on the planet, she can do whatever she wants. There is enough infrastructure left behind by the colony that she can survive for years. So she plants everyones gardens and finally gets to walk around barefoot and hatless.
But then, something unusual happens. One day, as she is at the center, monitoring for storms and writing "real" stories behind the notes on people who dies in the colony, she hears an interchange of humans attempting to land on the planet --- and something goes horribly wrong. Against all Ofelia's expectations and knowledge, the humans are attacked by aliens. Shortly after, strange things start to happen where she is. Doors left open that she was sure she'd closed. Or maybe she was just a crazy old woman after all?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsEverlasting Potential
By Sharon L. Goodman on May 15, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Remnant Population is a character-based story. It contemplates the nature of radical change, exploring its effects on an aged individual and her physical world. This book begs the questions... Is it ever too late to remake life and redefine self? Is it truly possible to change our own, and other's, social values? How stable is change, begun in solitude, when challenged with social expectations?
I enjoy novels, of any genre, that offer a platform from which readers may contemplate the mysterious depth of their own truths and choices. In Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon has gifted her readers with a rare combination of ageless truths, introspection and a sensitivity to wisdoms most prevalent in the aged. She has also gifted me with a book I treasure and won't part with.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Most Unusual Book
By Amazon Customer on October 21, 2001
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Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon is an unusual book in quite a few ways.
To start with, the protagonist, Ofelia, is over 70 years old, and a grandmother. She's not as spry as she was, and not taken seriously by her family or community. Just a "crazy old lady". I can think of very few SF books where the protagonist is that old, unless of course they have some life-extension technology. Ofelia's people do not seriously consider the wants and concerns of an old person. Perhaps our culture doesn't either, if you judge by their (lack of) prominence in fiction.
Ofelia lives in a struggling colony on a far-away planet. She's put her whole life into the colony -- the gardens, the family and friends she has buried there, the labor of a long life. Now the corporate owners of the world and the colony have decided it is "not viable" and they are shipping their employees off to start over on another world. Ofelia decides she won't leave.
The colonists and the corporate masters leave, not too concerned about one missing old lady. Ofelia is alone. Alone means un-fettered by the needs and demands of other people. Un-concerned about what the neighbors will think of what she wears or does. Free to do sensible things which she is very capable of, and also free to make her own artwork and to sit in the sun and dream.
This is the first and perhaps largest joy of the book. It is a personal growth story about someone whose life we might have assumed to be nearly over. Left to go wild, Ofelia blossoms. She is practical and careful, but at the same time her child self is finally set free.
Of course all is not well in paradise for long. Ofelia will be presented with plenty of challenges.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAnother good one from a great author

Elizabeth Moon does some of the best character-creation of any author out there. I have liked all of her works that I've read.

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I liked this story a lot. It's rare that an author writes about an older woman. Usually its about some 22 to 30 svelte or voluptuous siren. Read more

Published 3 months ago by DzngWmn
5.0 out of 5 starsBest science fiction I read in a long time

Love the characters both human and alien. Main character is a 70ish women who takes a chance on different life. Story is interesting and moves along quickly.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA female heroine that's 80 yrs old is great. Hope I'm that wise when I...

Typically don't read sci-fi but this book is so much more. A female heroine that's 80 yrs old is great. Hope I'm that wise when I reach that age.

Published 3 months ago by Marjorie L. Brigham
5.0 out of 5 starsAnother good book from Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon has been one of my favorite authors for a long time. This is a well crafted story, and I found it particularly enjoyable since I am now one of the "older"... Read more

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2.0 out of 5 starsMeh...

This story drags and I simply didn't have the patience to keep reading.

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