The Company series by Kage Baker (#5-#6, #9)
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Overview: Kage Baker’s stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue, and pointed social commentary with a light touch.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
The Life of the World to Come (The Company #5)
From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza’s once and future love. Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she’s sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated – the Company – to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She’s a botanist, a good one. She’s an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she’s a woman in love.In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr’s death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.The Company didn’t like that – bad for business. But she’s immortal and indestructible, so they couldn’t hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back. Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality."Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.
The Children of the Company (The Company #6)
In the sixth book of the Company series, we meet Executive Facilitator General Labienus, last seen presiding over a hearing to determine the fate of the Botanist Mendoza. Millennia of labor for his mortal masters have given him a profound contempt for humanity but failed to take away his evil sense of humor. He has become an arch-schemer, gleefully plotting the extinction of mankind and the overthrow of the Company." In a meditative mood after closing out Mendoza’s file, he reviews his interesting career. He muses on his subversion in the Company black project ADONAI. He also considers Aegeus, his despised rival for power, who has discovered a useful race of mortals known as Homo sapiens umbratilis. Their unique talents may enable him to seize power instead of Labienus. So Labienus plans a double cross that will kill two birds with one stone: He will woo away Aegeus’s promising protege, the Facilitator Victor, and at the same time dispose of a ghost from his own past that has become inconvenient. Victor is an unwilling protege whose long fall from grace is the book’s second story arc. The action ranges from the dawn of time to the far future, as Labienus’s shadow trails across history.
Not Less Than Gods (The Company #9)
Recently returned from war, young Edward Anton Bell-Fairfax is grateful to be taken under the wing of the Gentleman’s Speculative Society. At the Society, Edward soon learns that a secret world flourishes beneath the surface of London’s society, a world of wondrous and terrible inventions and devices used to tip the balance of power in a long-running game of high-stakes intrigue. Through his intensive training Edward Anton Bell-Fairfax, unwanted and lonely boy, becomes Edward Anton Bell-Fairfax, Victorian super-assassin, fleeing across the Turkish countryside in steam-powered coaches and honing his fighting skills against clockwork opponents.
As Edward travels across Europe with a team of companions, all disguised as gentleman dandies on tour, he learns more about himself and the curious abilities he is gradually developing. He begins to wonder if there isn’t more going on than simple international intrigue, and if he and his companions are maybe part of a political and economic game stretching through the centuries. But, in the end, is it a game he can bring himself to play?
Edward Anton Bell-Fairfax, the idealistic assassin. Perhaps the most dangerous man alive.
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