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Stations of the tide

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W. Morrow, 1991 - Fiction - 252 pages
Award-winning author Michael Swanwick brings us a deeply engrossing and thought-provoking novel about human civilization on the brink of extinction. This astonishing future take on Shakespeare's "The Tempest", depicts a world doomed by encroaching water and the extraordinary lengths to which its people will go to ensure their survival.

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User Review  - Michael Nash - Goodreads

I have no idea what to think of this novel. Full of fascinating ideas and there's an almost Wolfe-esque quality to the way that the Bureaucrat fumbles around in the haze of drugs and weirdness of the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Michael Evans - Goodreads

This is a great book. The reader gets dropped right into the middle of a world with tons of interesting technology and culture that is totally foreign. Instead of belaboring the setting, the author ... Read full review

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Stations of the Tide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stations of the Tide is a 1991 science fiction novel by American author Michael Swanwick. Prior to being published as a novel, it was serialized in Isaac ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Stations_of_the_Tide

Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick - Voyager Online
Title: Stations of the Tide Author: Michael Swanwick. Chapter One. The Leviathan in Flight. The bureaucrat fell from the sky. ...
www.voyageronline.com.au/ books/ extract.cfm?ISBN=0380817616

Tachyon Publications: The Postmodern Archipelago, Michael Swanwick
Stations of the Tide was honored with the Nebula Award and was also nominated for the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "The Edge of the World," was awarded ...
www.tachyonpublications.com/ book/ Postmodernarchipelago.html

The SF Site: A Conversation With Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick's third novel, Stations of the Tide, won a Nebula Award for best novel of 1991. It was also a nominee for the Hugo Award, ...
www.sfsite.com/ 07b/ ms132.htm

Michael Swanwick Online: The Chameleon Eludes the Net
Similarly, Swanwick is now widely accepted as having written one of the two main "Post-Cyberpunk" works with Stations of the Tide (the other is Neal ...
www.michaelswanwick.com/ auth/ chamelon.html

The Modern Word - Michael Swanwick Interview
A figure known only as “the bureaucrat” carries on a quest in the near-apocalyptic world of Stations of the Tide (1991), while The Iron Dragon’s Daughter ...
www.themodernword.com/ features/ interview_swanwick.html

Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk [Archive] - Quarter To Three Forums
Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers and Stations of the Tide. Think a slavering crossbreed of Gene Wolfe and Bruce Sterling. Speaking of which, Schismatrix by ...
www.quartertothree.com/ game-talk/ archive/ index.php?t-6333.html

Hugo- and Nebula-Winning Novels
No, this isn't a trilogy: Way Station; Stations of the Tide and Downbelow Station Also not a trilogy: Timescape; A Time of Changes and No Enemy But Time ...
www.adherents.com/ lit/ sf_hugo_nebula.html

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title, Stations of the tide / Michael Swanwick. Imprint, New York : Avon Books, 1997, c1991. Description, 252 p. ; 21 cm ...
ustlib.ust.hk/ record=b608245

Good Science = Bad Fiction « Beautiful Desolation
He was simply out of his depth and the book was a stutter step in an otherwise excellent body of work (see: Vacuum Flowers, Stations of the Tide). ...
cliffjburns.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 05/ 29/ good-science-bad-fiction/

About the author (1991)

Michael Swanwick lives in Philadelphia, PA. He has won five Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.

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TitleStations of the tide
AuthorMichael Swanwick
PublisherW. Morrow, 1991
ISBN0688104517, 9780688104511
Length252 pages
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