STATIONS OF THE TIDE

'''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 of 1990.
It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1992.

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Plot introduction

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.