''Stations of the Tide'' is a

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novel by American author

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. Prior to being published in book form in 1991, it was serialized in ''

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'' in two parts, starting in mid-December 1990. It won the

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for Best Novel in 1991, was nominated for the Hugo and Campbell Awards in 1992, and was nominated for the

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in 1993. ''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.

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