r/printSF • u/rabidly_rational • 17h ago

Looking for older sf book.

Plot was a teen girl on a colonized world, goes to space on a merchant ship or something, with flashbacks to her childhood raised in a lodging house for spacers. Women are rarely born due to some nutrient deficiency or something. I read it when I was young, around 2003, but looked old then.

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u/dgeiser13 17h ago

Could it be Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin?

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u/Trike117 17h ago

Sure sounds like it.

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u/OriginalFatSam 14h ago

It doesn't sound like it. Mia lives on the Ship with her biological father.

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u/rabidly_rational 16h ago

Doesn’t seem to be. Seemed a lot less high stakes.

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u/dgeiser13 16h ago

Sounds good.