Stations of the Tide Author:Michael Swanwick As the planet of Miranda awaits an approaching cataclysm, Gregorian, a brilliant renegade scientist and busy wizard, arrives on the planet with plans to remake the dying world in his own evil image. Reprint. NYT.
This novel is a pageant of wacky but underdeveloped ideas, a selection of creative one-liners poorly connected by a thin thread of plot. Once I was halfway through the disjointed story, I was racing to the end just to be finished with it.