rom author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes the Nebula award-winning 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, astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was widely compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and Swanwick has gone on in the two decades since its first publication to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers.

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Michael Swanwick
Amerikansk forfatter som har skrevet SF (og en smule fantasy) siden 1980. Swanwick er en af de forfattere hvis bøger næsten skal læses mere en én gang for at få det fulde udbytte. Hans første roman, "In the Drift" udkom I 1984. Senere kom "Vacuum Flowers" og "Griffin's Egg", men det var for bogen "Stations of the Tide" at han fik en velfortjent Nebula pris I 1991. To år senere udkom hans eneste fantasy roman til dato, "The Iron Dragon's Daughter." en glimrende bog fortalt I næsten Dickenske omgivelser.