Stations of the Tide is Swanwick's homage to Gene Wolfe. And it's a /good/ homage -- riffing on the other man's work without cut-and-pasting or attempting to ape his style. (You don't need to have read Wolfe to appreciate it, mind.)

Honestly, I should reread this sometime.

Also: while this is set in the universe of Vacuum Flowers, it's centuries in the future and the connections to the earlier novel are slight. Both books stand alone just fine.


Doug M.