Name: Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon
Brand: Elizabeth Moon
Price: 100.52 RON
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Mesmerizing new sci-fi from the author of The Deed of Paksenarrion. Ofelia, the only remaining settler on a planet long since abandoned by its initial human colony, is at first fearful when a new group of settlers arrives. But the appearance of stone-age aliens whom no one knew existed thrusts Ofelia into another role altogether. nFinalist for the Hugo Award - Ofelia--tough, kind, wise and unwise, fond of food, tired of foolish people--is one of the most probable heroines science fiction has ever known.--Ursula K. Le Guin nFor forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days--until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community . . . but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. A population of one. n n With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofeli