Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide

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image_caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
author = Michael Swanwick
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = William Morrow and Company
release_date = 1991
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 252 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-688-10451-7
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"Stations of the Tide" is a 1991 science fiction novel by American author Michael Swanwick. Prior to being published as a novel, it was serialized in" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "in two parts, starting in mid-December 1990.

It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1992.

Plot introduction

"Stations of the Tide" is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.


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