Crystal Express

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Crystal Express
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Dust-jacket illustration by Rick Lieder for Crystal Express
Author Bruce Sterling
IllustratorRick Lieder
Cover artistRick Lieder
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1989
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages264
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 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.

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:

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