Synopsis
History
First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1982
1982 Nebula finalist for best novelette.
1983 Hugo finalist for best novelette.
Review
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Crystal Express, hardcover, Arkham House, 1989-05-00
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2007-09-25
The 1983 Annual World’s Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, hardcover, Daw Books / SFBC, 1983-09-00
All of the stories in the Shaper/Mechanist series:
Schismatrix
Swarm
Spider Rose
Cicada Queen
Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations
Sunken Gardens
