* Paul McAuley's "The Passenger" (short story)

Some space farers "rescue" a little girl from an apparently abandoned ship with all dead, & she turns out to be something else (an alien or something, I don't quite recall).

Collected in.

1. Gardner Dozois (Ed)'s "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection" (2003).
   

Fact sheet.

First published: ...
Rating: B

Note: Why is this post so short?