Crystal Express

Crystal Express

Dust-jacket illustration by Rick Lieder for Crystal Express
Author Bruce Sterling
Illustrator Rick Lieder
Cover artist Rick Lieder
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1989
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 264 pp
ISBN 0-87054-158-7
OCLC 19352012
813/.0876 19
LC Class PS3569.T3876 C79 1989

Crystal Express is a collection of Science fiction and fantasy stories by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling. It was released in 1989 by Arkham House. It was initially published in an edition of 4,231 copies and was the author's first book published by Arkham House.

Many of the stories appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the first five stories are set in Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist universe.

Contents

Crystal Express contains the following stories:

  1. "Swarm"
  2. "Spider Rose"
  3. "Cicada Queen"
  4. "Sunken Gardens"
  5. "Twenty Evocations"
  6. "Green Days in Brunei"
  7. "Spook"
  8. "The Beautiful and the Sublime"
  9. "Telliamed"
  10. "The Little Magic Shop"
  11. "Flowers of Edo"
  12. "Dinner in Audoghast"

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