Crystal Express

Crystal Express is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American 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.

Crystal Express
Dust-jacket illustration by Rick Lieder for Crystal Express
AuthorBruce Sterling
IllustratorRick Lieder
Cover artistRick Lieder
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
1989
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages264
ISBN0-87054-158-7
OCLC19352012
813/.0876 19
LC ClassPS3569.T3876 C79 1989

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"

Sources

  • 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.
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