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Remnant Population
by Elizabeth Moon
slow-paced
When corporate overlords evacuate a colony for lack of profitability, they make it clear elderly Ofelia is a costly burden to capitalism. She decides to "miss" her shuttle departure and live out her remaining time in the abandoned colony that has been her home for 40 years, savoring the quiet and doing whatever she wants after a lifetime of father/husband/motherhood/corporate overlords stifling her. She enjoys her freedom until she hears over the comms system the arrival of new colonizers nearby... and their deaths at the hands of an indigenous lifeform Ofelia's group hadn't encountered in their decades on the planet.
Grumpy elderly woman who just wants to be left alone ends up being the first contact (well, the first civil contact) with extraterrestrials who value her wisdom and independence vastly more than any humans in the story do.
Grumpy elderly woman who just wants to be left alone ends up being the first contact (well, the first civil contact) with extraterrestrials who value her wisdom and independence vastly more than any humans in the story do.