ISBN 0-441-00370-2 (US trade pbk)

Schismatrix
(novel... originally published by Arbor House, June 1985, hbk);

"Swarm"
(short story... originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , April 1982... reissued in the collection Crystal Express , 1989),

"Spider Rose"
(short story... originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , August 1982... reissued in the collection Crystal Express , 1989),

"Cicada Queen"
(short story... originally published in Universe 13 edited by Terry Carr... reissued in the collection Crystal Express , 1989),

"Sunken Gardens"
(short story... originally published in Omni , June 1984... reissued in the collection Crystal Express , 1989),

"Twenty Evocations"
(short story... originally published in Interzone , Spring 1984; first published as "Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: Twenty Evocations"... reissued in the collection Crystal Express , 1989),

"In the last decade Bruce Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction, his work lauded by critics and contemporaries alike. Now for the first time in one volume comes every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the world of the Schismatrix -- where the Shaper revolutionaries struggle against the aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of mankind's destiny. Experience the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix , plus thousands of words of mindbending short fiction from a storytelling master in overdrive. It's tough. It's timeless. It's vintage Sterling." [jacket blurb, US trade pbk, 1996]

"A brave new world of nearly constant future shock." -- (in the Washington Post ).

• Books by Bruce Sterling