Stations of the Tide is a science fiction novel by American author Michael Swanwick.

Prior to being published in book form in 1991, it was serialized in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in two parts, starting in mid-December 1990.

[1] Stations of the Tide is the story of an unnamed bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who is on the planet Miranda hunting a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology, seeking to bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.See guidelines for writing about novels.

Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.