The Scapegoat

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Alien Stars (1985), edited by Elizabeth Mitchell. The story can also be found in the anthologies Body Armor: 2000 (1986), edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Joe Haldeman, and Charles G. Waugh and The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001), edtied by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg. The story is included in the collection The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004).