Stations of the Tide - Michael Swanwick - 2024 Tor Essentials Paperback - Thom Tenery Cover

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Thom Tenery Blurb: “The Rebula Award-winning novel from Michael Swanwick-one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction —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 calamity threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapeshifters. A man from a government bureau has been sent to investigate the impending catastrophe, and 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 whomever or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying, astonishing confrontation with death and transcenden