Crystal Express
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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:
- "Swarm"
- "Spider Rose"
- "Cicada Queen"
- "Sunken Gardens"
- "Twenty Evocations"
- "Green Days in Brunei"
- "Spook"
- "The Beautiful and the Sublime"
- "Telliamed"
- "The Little Magic Shop"
- "Flowers of Edo"
- "Dinner in Audoghast"
Reprints
- New York: Ace, 1990.
- London: Legend/Century, 1991.
References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 57.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 159. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 135. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.