Die letzte Siedlerin

Roman

479 pages

German language

Published March 27, 1998 by Bastei Lübbe, Bastei Lübbe Verlag.

ISBN:
9783404242429

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4 stars (1 review)

Endlich alleine! Stets hat man Ofelia, der ältesten Siedlerin von Sims Bancorp, gesagt, was sie tun und lassen soll. Nun weigert sie sich, mit den anderen menschlichen Siedlern den Planeten zu verlassen. Sie sei zu alt und hätte keine Lust mehr, umherzuwandern. Also bleibt sie alleine auf Bancorp zurück: die letzte Siedlerin bis unerwartet neue Kolonisten auftauchen, sehr zum Leidwesen Ofelias. Aus ihrem Versteck heraus muss sie jedoch beobachten, wie die neuen Kolonisten von einheimischen, intelligenten Wesen vernichtet werden, von denen bisher niemand etwas ahnte. Und nun ist es an Ofelia, diese Einheimischen vor dem Zorn der Erde zu retten...

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Remnant Population

4 stars

I read Remnant Population from the #SFFBookClub backlog. I had a lot of fun reading this. This is a first contact novel with the main character being an older woman in her seventies. At the start of the book, Ofelia is living with her only remaining adult son and his wife. When the colony she is on loses their contract and evacuates, and she decides to hide and stay. It turns out that the planet had undiscovered intelligent life, and these aliens come to investigate her. In the end, she's caught in the middle between these friendly aliens and returning humans.

I think what I most appreciate about this book is the wry internal perspective and character development of Ofelia. She is an old woman who has put in the work, and whose primary character trait is that she's just tired of putting up with other people's expectations and attitudes. …