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Crystal Express

by Bruce Sterling · 1989

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Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.

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CONTENTS:

Swarm (1982)

Spider Rose (1982)

Cicada Queen (1983)

Sunken Gardens (1984)

Twenty Evocations (1984)

Green Days in Brunei (1985)

Spook (1983)

The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986)

Telliamed (1984)

The Little Magic Shop (1987)

Flowers of Edo (1987)

Dinner in Audoghast (1985)

Genre
science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thiscyberpunkcyberpunkMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 278 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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