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"The Backward Look" by Isaac Asimov, copyright (c) 1979 by Davis Publications, Inc., reprinted by
permission of author;

"Cocoon" by Greg Egan, copyright (c) 1994 by Greg Egan, reprinted by permission of author;

"Rites of Spring" by Lisa Goldstein, copyright (c) 1994 by Lisa Gold-stein, reprinted by permission of
author;

"Fault Lines" by Nancy Kress, copyright (c) 1995 by Nancy Kress, reprinted by permission of author;

"The Barbie Murders" by John Varley, copyright (c) 1978 by Davis Publications, Inc., reprinted by
permission of author;
"The Gorgon Field" by Kate Wilhelm, copyright (c) 1985 by Kate Wil-helm, reprinted by permission
of author;

all stories have previously ap-peared in ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION, published by Dell
Magazines, a division of Crosstown Publications.
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Kathleen Halligan —our inspiration!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editors would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper; David
Bruce; Torsten Scheihagen; Adrienne Mastromonaco; Kathleen Halligan, who set up this deal; Robert H.
Seiden, who cleared the permissions; and thanks especially to our own editor on this project, Susan
Allison.

CONTENTS
THE BARBIE MURDERS John Varley
COCOON Greg Egan
THE GORGON FIELD Kate Wilhelm
RITES OF SPRING Lisa Goldstein
THE BACKWARD LOOK Isaac Asimov
FAULT LINES Nancy Kress

THE BARBIE MURDERS

John Varley

"The Barbie Murders" was purchased by George Scithers, and appeared in the January/February
1978 issue of Asimov's, with a cover by Paul Alex-ander and an interior illustration by Jack
Gaughan. Some of Varley's earliest stories appeared in Asi-mov's, 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 Var-ley appeared on the SF scene in 1975, and by the end of 1976—in
what was a meteoric rise to promi-nence 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 Cham-pagne. His most recent book was the major
novel, Steel Beach. He has won two Nebulas and two Hugos for his short fiction.