Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide is a science fiction novel by American author Michael Swanwick. Prior to being published in book form in 1991, it was serialized in Isaac [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine] in two parts, starting in mid-December 1990.
It won the Nebula Award for Nebula [Award for Best Novel|Best Novel] in 1991, was nominated for the Hugo and Campbell Memorial Award|Campbell] Awards in 1992, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 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.