Quotes from book
The Barbie Murders

Name: The Barbie Murders
Author: John Varley

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 thought his lack of curiosity must be monumental, but I was wrong. It turned out that he had some queer notions about the morality of the whole process, ideas he had gotten from some weirdly aberrant religion in his childhood. I had heard of the cult, as you can hardly avoid it if you know any history. It had said little about ethics, being more interested in arbitrary regulations.”

John Varley book The Barbie Murders

"Picnic on Nearside", in Peter Crowther ed. Tales in Space, p. 286

“I’m decrepit, but I ain’t senile.”

John Varley book The Barbie Murders

"Picnic on Nearside", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1974), reprinted in Peter Crowther ed. Tales in Space, p. 283

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