• #154 Trial by fire: Rite of Passage (1968) by Alexei Panshin

  • Apr 25 2025
  • Length: 7 mins
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#154 Trial by fire: Rite of Passage (1968) by Alexei Panshin

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  • Coming of age on a hollowed-out asteroid

    The critic Algis Budrys said of this novel, "one feels a real shock as one realizes that Panshin after all has never been a girl growing up aboard a hollowed-out planetoid". He was praising Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin's 1968 novel which went on to win the Nebula Award for Best Novel while up against tough competition.

    A part of the first series of Ace Science Fiction Specials edited by Terry Carr, Rite of Passage is both a powerful coming of age story in a science fiction setting, and a challenging allegory for the world economic system.

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