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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 transcendence.
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This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers.
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With a new introduction by John Clute, coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.”