Stations of the Tide
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...
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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. 256 pp.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380715244 (0380715244)
Publish date: March 28th 1992
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
I found this to be something of an odd little book. It wasn't so much the blending of science fiction and fantasy, but more the author's storytelling style that gave me some trouble getting into. More interesting than good, I'm glad the book was so short or I might not have finished it. Still, I ...
More coherant than [book: Dragons of Babel], less emotionally wrenching than [book: The Iron Dragon's Daughter], but just as stuffed with innovation and imagination as all of Swanwick's work. An unnamed bureaucrat is sent to a Miranda to investigate possible stolen technology. Miranda is a colon...
Absolutely fascinating, full of surprises.
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