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Riding the White Bull

Caitlín R. Kiernan

First published January 2004
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

After a Europa probe returns to Earth carrying a devastating epidemic, a man is employed to telepathically determine who was the carrier contact of an infected victim, then track them down and kill them.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (16)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 2004 Argosy Magazine, January-February 2004 Coppervale International MAGAZINE 51
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 562
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 450
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 450
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
September 2005 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology
January 2009 A Is for Alien Subterranean Press Collection 11
August 2011 Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan Subterranean Press Collection 367
November 2011 Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan Subterranean Press Collection
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |450
June 2015 Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2015 Clarkesworld Magazine MAGAZINE 78
November 2015 A Is for Alien Drugstore Indian Press Collection
October 2016 Things from Outer Space Baen Books Anthology 229
October 2020 A Is for Alien Blackstone Publishing Collection |1
February 2021 A Is for Alien Blackstone Publishing Collection |1
October 2023 Bradbury Weather Subterranean Press Collection