The Passenger

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Overview:

Title: The Passenger
Author: Paul J. McAuley
Year: 2002
Type: Short Fiction
Series: The Quiet War

Variant Titles:

2002. The Passenger

Awards:

0000. The Passenger Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)