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Passion Play

Sean Stewart

First published July 1992
Type Novel

<b>From the author's website:</b> "It is a dark time. The great cities are dying, like the country, from the heart out. The Redemption Presidency tolerates vigilantes who kill according to Biblical example. The police subcontract freelancers to bring in criminals for quick and televised execution. <p>Diane Fletcher is one of these freelancers: a "shaper" cursed with the gift of seeing and feeling the emotions of others. Armed with hunter skills, she takes on the mysterious death of Jonathan Mask, a great actor found electrocuted in the costume of a demon. But even a shaper can become lost in the human labyrinth, where patterns of innocence, guilt, passion and deception lead inevitably into that treacherous territory between justice and vengeance."

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1993 Prix Aurora Awards Best Long-Form Work in English / Meilleur livre en anglais Winner
1994 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Nominee/Finalist
1995 Nebula Award Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1992 Cover Passion Play Tesseract / Beach Holme Novel 8
December 1993 Cover Passion Play Ace Books Novel
March 1995 Cover Angelo nero Editrice Nord Novel
September 2003 Cover Le jeu de la passion Alire Novel
June 2017 Cover Passion Play Dover Publications Novel