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
Dewey Decimal	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"

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.