Synopsis
History
First publication: Universe 13, ed. by Terry Carr, Doubleday, June 1983
1983 Nebula finalist for best novelette.
Review
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Universe 13, edited by Terry Carr, hardcover, Doubleday, 1983-06-00
Crystal Express, hardcover, Arkham House, 1989-05-00
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2007-09-25
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