{"id":1242,"date":"1997-04-15T15:15:39","date_gmt":"1997-04-15T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:19:10","slug":"remnant-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Remnant Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Remnant Population<\/em> by Elizabeth Moon<\/h3>\n<p>Our largest group ever, twelve people, assembled at             Adventures in Crime and Space on April 15 to discuss             Elizabeth Moon&#8217;s Hugo-nominated <strong>Remnant             Population<\/strong>. The book is a first contact story             involving an old woman left by herself on an alien             planet. It was humorously (and accurately) termed &#8220;a             coming of age novel for little old ladies.&#8221; The             characterization of the woman is complex and             well-executed, and the alien society she encounters is             an intriguing concoction. We found the prose quite             readable, and one person pronounced it a &#8220;compulsive             page-turner.&#8221; Another person had particularly strong             feelings for the work, since &#8220;this is the book that got             me reading again after finishing college.&#8221; In addition             to the main story of the first contact, the book             examines family dynamics and the roles of the elderly             in human society. One person felt that this was             &#8220;Elizabeth Moon&#8217;s first literary novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon Our largest group ever, twelve people, assembled at Adventures in Crime and Space on April 15 to discuss Elizabeth Moon&#8217;s Hugo-nominated Remnant Population. The book is a first contact story involving an old woman left by herself on an alien planet. It was humorously (and accurately) termed &#8220;a coming of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}