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The Barbie Murders THE BARBIE MURDERS John Varley The Barbie Murders was purchased by George Scithers, and appeared in the January/February 1978 issue of Asimovs, with a cover by Paul Alexander and an interior illustration by Jack Gaughan. Some of Varleys earliest stories appeared in Asimovs, two of them in our very first issue (one of them his classic story Air Raid), and although the magazine has seen less of him in recent years as his career as a novelist predominated, we still hope to coax more stories out of him in the future. John Varley appeared on the SF scene in 1975, and by the end of 1976-in what was a meteoric rise to prominence even for a field known for meteoric rises-he was already being recognized as one of the hottest new writers of the seventies. His books include the novels Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan, Wizard, and Demon, and the collections The Persistence of Vision, The Barbie Murders, Picnic on Nearside, and Blue Champagne. His most recent book was the major novel, Steel Beach. He has won two Nebulas and two Hugos for his short fiction . In the vivid and wildly inventive high-tech thriller that follows, one of SFs best murder mysteries, he postulates a case where the detective, before he can determine Who Done It, first has to figure which of the suspects is which ... The body came to the morgue at 2246 hours. No one paid much attention to it. It was a Saturday night, and the bodies were piling up like logs in a millpond. A harried attendant working her way down the row of stainless steel tables picked up the sheaf of papers that came with the body, peeling back the sheet over the face. She took a card from her pocket and scrawled on it, copying from the reports filed by the investigating officer and the hospital staff: Ingraham, Leah Petrie. Female. Age: 35. Length: 2.1 meters. Mass: 59 kilograms. Dead