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Where are all the science fiction books about plagues and bioterror? There's been a huge surge in deadly-disease books in non-SF genres since 9/11 — from non-fiction books like Hot Zone to medical thrillers like Leonard Goldberg's Fever Cell to literary works like Thomas Mullen's The Last Town On Earth. But the disease-paranoia wave has mostly passed science fiction by. How come? We asked Barth Anderson, author of science-fiction disease book The Patron Saint of Plagues. More »
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