"Chip Runner"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1989
ID: 156
Publication history:
- 1989: Microverse, Mass market paperback
- 1989: Asimov's November 1989, Magazine
- 1990: World's Best Science Fiction 1990, DAW Mass market paperback
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37068-5, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1993: The Secret Sharer (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 2), Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21370-8, 395 pp.
- 1994: Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams, Ace Mass market paperback
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
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?