Avon First Trade Paperback Printing 1997 with 252 pages. - The world of Miranda is dying-doomed to drown beneath the weight of its own oceans. In the final days before he unavoidable natural disaster, the race is on to locate Gregorian - a brilliant renegade scientist and wizard who, with his forbidden technology and charismatic magic, plans to remake the moribund planet in his own image. Brilliantly realized, suspenseful and compelling, Stations of the Tide is speculative fiction at its provocative best.