Remnant Population in Play Book Tag

Aug 04, 2025 Algernon (Darth Anyan) rated it really liked it

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Of course the Company didn’t care. That’s what it meant to be on contract. She understood that, if she understood nothing else, what it meant to be signed, sealed, delivered to the masters.

You don’t need to be a science-fiction writer to know that corporations only care about the bottom line. We are numbers to them, not people. Only a number is also the planet we have here: Colony 3245.12 , a failed project in the eyes of he Sims Bancorp Company, who decides to cut their loses and remove all ...more

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Dec 10, 2019 Karin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: strong-women, american-authors, interpersonal-relationships, kapk, 1990s, women-authors, 20th-century-fiction, american, novels, science-fiction

3.5 stars

My rating is hovering. On the one hand the last few chapters were excellent, but on the other it was a very long, slow start and I would have set it aside if it weren't for a book discussion.

I am not going to repeat the book description. Suffice it to say that Ofelia, a 70 something woman, opts to hide and stay behind when a human colony on another planet is abandoned for being unprofitable because she is tired of living up to other people's expectations and for a couple of other reason ...more

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Feb 01, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: spacey-space-future, aliens, fantasy-and-sci-fi

Day after day, she was doing what she wanted. No interruptions. No angry voices. No demands that she quit this and start that. Day by day the tomatoes swelled from tiny green buttons to fat green globes. Beans pushed out of the wrinkled dry bean flowers, lengthened into fattening green strings. Early squash formed under the flamboyant flowers and puffed up, balloon-like. ...

This is not your usual sci-fi! It starts out bucolic with bare toes in the soil and tomato plants growing, then it gets ...more

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Jun 15, 2013 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance-lovers-challenge-2014, read-in-2014, science-fiction, science-fiction-aliens, authors-m-to-p, hugo-nebula-award-or-nominee, 2014-book-purchases, science-fiction-space-opera, best-of-2014, 50-best-books-in-2014

I enjoy to read a good colonization story now and then, although one should mention this is more a de-colonization story. I was surprised that Elizabeth Moon's Remnant Population is labeled Hard Sci-Fi. In a challenge I currently participate in, I learned that I am not firm with the sub-genres that exist *lol*. What I want to say is this: I am happy that I can learn something new as soon as I open a new book.

Remnant Population started relatively slow for me introducing the people and the world a ...more

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Apr 18, 2021 Hannah Peterson rated it liked it

Shelves: aty-2021, anthropological-sci-fi

I added this book to my TBR based entirely off of the premise, which is not really my typical approach for choosing books. It was recommended by someone who shares a lot of similar interests to me in terms of books, who described it like this:

"My favourite novel with an old lady protagonist is Elizabeth Moon’s Remnant Population, it’s technically science-fiction but doesn’t really feel like it. Humans have colonised a planet that turned out to be not so well-suited for colonisation, so they all ...more

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Mar 10, 2023 Amy N. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-sci-fi

[read for INFO 5410]

I've been meaning to read this for a while, so I read it for class, and I'm glad I did!

The premise is so intriguing, and the author fulfils it completely. At times I wondered if the story was getting derailed by the (view spoiler), but it tied back in wonderfully. ...more

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