Michael Swanwick - Stations of the Tide (epub)[j_ray]

From author Michael Swanwick--one of the most brilliantly assured and
darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction--comes 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.

Title: Stations of the Tide
Author: Michael Swanwick
Published: February 1, 2011, by Orb
Language: English
Genre: Science Fiction
ISBN-10: 0765327910
ISBN-13: 978-0765327918
Length: 256 pages