Rite of Passage (novel)

This article is about the Alexei Panshin novel. For the Richard Wright novel, see Richard Wright (author). For the William Golding novel, see Rites of Passage (novel).
Rite of Passage
Cover of first edition
AuthorAlexei Panshin
Cover artistLeo and Diane Dillon
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAce Books
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages254
ISBN0-671-44068-3
OCLC9226788

Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968 as an Ace Science Fiction Special, this novel about a shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969.