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Stations of the Tide
Published 1991 by William Morrow · 252 pages
Hugo · 1992
FinalistNebula · 1992
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Michael Swanwick on these ballots
5 award entries · 3 books · 1 wins · 1992–2003
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Synopsis
A nameless bureaucrat is sent to the planet Miranda to recover prohibited technology from a rogue magician named Gregorian before the planet's periodic tidal flooding submerges its inhabited lowlands. In a shape-shifting landscape of illusion and transformation, nothing is as it seems in this dreamlike tale of bureaucracy, magic, and ecological catastrophe.
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