About the Book
Nebula Award 1991, Hugo Award nominee 1992.
From author Michael Swanwick – one of the most brilliantly assured and
darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction – comes 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 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
and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence.
