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Remnant population

When her company relocates to another planet, Ofelia Falfurrias, 70, who expects to be downsized anyway, decides to remain behind. Thus she discovers the planet's population as it emerges from hiding, now that the humans have left. A meeting of cultures.

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Main Author: Moon, Elizabeth (Author)
Other Authors: Ruddell, Gary, 1951- (Illustrator), Russo, Carol (Bookjacket designer)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Riverdale, NY : Baen, 1996.
Subjects:
Life on other planets > Fiction.
Science fiction.
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Summary:When her company relocates to another planet, Ofelia Falfurrias, 70, who expects to be downsized anyway, decides to remain behind. Thus she discovers the planet's population as it emerges from hiding, now that the humans have left. A meeting of cultures.
Item Description:First printing May 1996.
"A Baen books original"--Title page verso.
Cover art by Gary Ruddell.
Cover design by Carol Russo.
"0596220"--Book jacket back.
Physical Description:339 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780345462190
034546219X
9780671877187
0671877186
Author Notes:Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) with graduate work in Biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

She served in the USMC from 1968 to 1971, first at MCB Quantico and then at HQMC. She married Richard Moon, a Rice classmate and Army officer, in 1969; they moved to the small central Texas town where they still live in 1979. They have one son, born in 1983.

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