Mission Child
Mission Child is a novel by Maureen F. McHugh.
The protagonist is a woman who goes through war and hardship, as a passing man, ultimately discovering an essential non-gendered core of herself.
Mission Child was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award and short listed for the Tiptree Award.
Editions
- Eos Books, 1998, hardcover
- Little Brown/Orbit, 1999, paperback
- Eos Books, 1999, paperback
Further Reading
- "Maureen McHugh's Mission Child" by L. Timmel Duchamp
- Described as "sort of like a tranny Julie of the Wolves in space" by badgerbag, 2008/2/20