Stations of the Tide (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Swanwick
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alien civilization
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: The planet Miranda
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Theft, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Clones or cloning
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
An unnamed bureaucrat is sent from the Technology Transfer Department to the colonized planet Miranda. Miranda is a technologically restricted planet, and the bureaucrat’s boss, Korda, fears that the Mirandan wizard Gregorian has stolen some proscribed technology. Miranda, at the time of the bureaucrat’s arrival, faces the once-in-two-centuries Jubilee Tides, when vast portions of the planet are drowned. Only the life- forms adapted to live under water survive. As the towns gear up for evacuation, the bureaucrat searches for Gregorian in an ever- shifting reality....
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