邁剋爾•斯萬維剋齣生於1950年。二十三歲那年，年輕而自負的他懷揣七十美元隻身來到費城，開始瞭艱辛的創作生涯。六年之後，他的第一篇科幻小說發錶，並獲星雲奬提名。

此後，斯萬維剋創作瞭大量的優秀科幻與奇幻作品，其中，《世界邊緣》獲得西奧多•斯特金奬，《無綫電波》獲得世界奇幻奬，《潮汐站》和《狗說汪汪》獲得星雲奬，《機器的脈搏》、《恐龍諧謔麯》、《緩慢的生命》和《時空軍團》獲得雨果奬。

目前，邁剋爾•斯萬維剋與妻子和兒子一起住在美國費城。

Stations of the Tide is a 1991 science fiction novel by Michael Swanwick. Prior to being published as a novel, it was serialized in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in two parts, starting in mid-December of 1990.

It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1992.

Plot introduction

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Stations of the Tide is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.