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Patient Zero

Tananarive Due

First published August 2000
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Carriers

Synopsis

In "Patient Zero," our narrator is a little boy in the hospital. He's been in the hospital for a long, long time. In fact, he is not allowed to leave the hospital — and when people come to visit him, they must wear funny suits so that they don't get sick. And as time goes on, and he has fewer and fewer visitors, he starts to wonder what's going on outside.

External Links

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Nominee/Finalist

Publications (19)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 2000 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2000 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 5
June 2001 Year's Best SF 6 Eos / HarperCollins Anthology 61
July 2001 Year's Best SF 6 Eos / HarperCollins / SFBC Anthology 61
July 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 594
August 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 491
August 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 491
September 2001 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 14th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 545
August 2003 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
October 2009 Year's Best SF 6 HarperCollins e-books Anthology
August 2010 Lightspeed, August 2010 Prime Books MAGAZINE |4
November 2011 Lightspeed: Year One Prime Books Anthology 120
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 14th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |545
February 2015 Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse Titan Books Anthology
February 2015 Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse Titan Books Anthology
February 2015 Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse Titan Books Anthology
September 2015 Ghost Summer Prime Books Collection |9
September 2015 Ghost Summer Prime Books Collection 207
June 2016 Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse Titan Books Anthology 475
December 2020 Ghost Summer Blackstone Publishing Collection |9