From author Michael Swanwick — one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction — comes the Nebula Award-winning masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.

The "Jubilee Tides" will drown Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting dying world in his own evil image — and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying, astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence.