TY - ABST T1 - "The Barbie Murders" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -
Authoritarian dystopia set in a Barbie commune in which all are women and all look alike.
JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 2.1 N1 -Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-34; in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley, 1980), 52-81; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1983), 52-81; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 52-81; and in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 165-91.
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