Crystal Express is a collection of Science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and fantasy stories by cyberpunk

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983...

 author Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...

. It was released in 1989

1989 in literature

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  by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. 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"