A review by grayjay
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin

1.0

For the first half I was thinking, okay, our protagonist is a 13 year old xenophobes. It's going to be about her learning that people are valuable and heirs to the same destiny as a species. Colonialism is bad. Unity is good. Then it all fell apart, and she kept being a jerk.

It felt like, as in a lot of good science fiction, the author was trying to teach us something of value, but he fumbled it.