- Science Fiction, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Fiction
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge. His search is complicated by his quarry's deep local knowledge and the imminence of the continent-inundating Jubilee tides, which have thrown the world he's searching into chaos. Little is what it seems and references abound.
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Contemporary, cool, grave and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Swanwick
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Legend, Avon Books, Ediciones Martínez Roca
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780380817610
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