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Country United States Publication date 1991 ISBN 0-688-10451-7 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 252 pp Originally published December 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Publisher William Morrow and Company Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Awards Nebula Award for Best Novel, Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Novel Nominations Hugo Award for Best Novel, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Similar Michael Swanwick books, Nebula Award for Best Novel winners, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stations of the Tide is a science fiction novel by American author Michael Swanwick. Prior to being published in book form in 1991, 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, was nominated for both the Hugo and Campbell Awards in 1992, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1993.
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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