Stations of the Tide

Michael Swanwick First published 1991

About this book

The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge. His search is complicated by his quarry's deep local knowledge and the imminence of the continent-inundating Jubilee tides, which have thrown the world he's searching into chaos. Little is what it seems and references abound.

Subjects

  • award:nebula_award=novel
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • fiction, science fiction, general
  • science fiction
  • space opera