"Picnic on Nearside", in Peter Crowther ed. Tales in Space, p. 286
Quotes from book
The Barbie Murders
Tells the stories of a talking bomb, an asteroid vacation land, murder at a settlement where all the inhabitants are identical, a man enjoying his second childhood, a living black hole, and others
“I’m decrepit, but I ain’t senile.”
"Picnic on Nearside", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1974), reprinted in Peter Crowther ed. Tales in Space, p. 283
