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Stations of the Tide

Michael Swanwick, John Clute

Ages 16+

Readers rate it 3.9 (21 on Hardcover)

257 pages · Released Feb 1, 2011

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This is a dense, philosophically complex science fantasy novel for adult readers, comparable to Gene Wolfe's work. The story involves a dangerous antagonist threatening mass destruction, with mature themes of death, transformation, and existential dread throughout. While not graphically violent, the atmosphere is dark and psychologically unsettling, with some sexual references and occasional profanity woven into the narrative.

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The Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans... The Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil image—and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Dystopian
  • Space Opera
  • Cyberpunk
  • award:nebula_award=novel
  • Fiction, science fiction, general

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ISBN 9781429989497 · Macmillan + ORM