Chip Runner

Form: Short story

Year: 1989

Publication history:

• 1989 : Asimov's November 1989 (m) ,
• 1989 : Microverse (pb) ,
• 1990 : World's Best Science Fiction 1990 (pb) , DAW
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (hc) , Bantam, 546 pp., 37068-5
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (tpb) , Bantam, 546 pp., ISBN 0-553-37068-5
• 1993 : The Secret Sharer (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 2) (tpb) , Grafton (UK), 395 pp., ISBN 0-586-21370-8
• 1994 : Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (pb) , Ace
• 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise

Timothy is a very bright, very unusual boy. He's a genius with computers, but seems to be starving himself to death. His parents send him to a therapist who specializes in anorexia, but Timothy is nothing like the body-conscious girls the docyor is used to. What would make a fifteen-year old boy stop eating? The answer is like nothing the therapist has encountered. And knowing it provide clues to an effective treatment?