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The Children of the Company Kage Baker Tor, Nov. 2005, $24.95, 304 pp. ISBN:076531455X Dr. Zeus of the Company has learned the secrets of time travel and how to turn mortals into immortal cyborgs that he sends back in time to hide art, artifacts and anything else that would benefit the Company...

The Machine’s Child Kage Baker Tor, Sept 2006, $24.95, 352 pp. ISBN 0765315513 After recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by downloading the personalities of his two clones into his brain, Alec, Edward and Nicholas agree they must rescue the immortal botanist Mendoza. All three loved her...

Gods and Pawns Kage Baker Tor, Jan 2007, $24.95 ISBN: 0765315521 These seven “stories of the Company” are reprints from other publications but brought together under one book for the first time to the delight of fans of the series who will understand the title while newcomers will enjoy these...

The Sons Of Heaven Kage Baker Tor, July 2007, $25.95, 432 pp. ISBN: 076531746X When last seen, Mendoza, the immortal cyborg botanist, is in 500,000 BCE with her three lovers in one body. One of three personalities in the cyborg body they share, Edward, was able to set the personalities of the...

The New Space Opera Gardner Dozois (editor) and Jonathan Strahan (editor) Eos, Jun 2007, $15.95 ISBN: 0060846755 In the Introduction to this anthology consisting of eighteen original contributions, the definition of the space opera subplot is discussed with various sources like the Encyclopedia...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois St. Martin’s, Jul 2007, $21.95 ISBN: 9780312363352 As always this annual collection is the best science fiction anthology of the year. Besides the strong selection of twenty-eight stories, the Summation...

The House of Stag Kage Baker Tor, Sep 2008, $24.95 ISBN: 9780765317452 The Yendri are a gentle innocent people living in contentment in their valley protected from outsiders by mountains until the Riders showed up. They viciously enslave the tranquil Yendri, working them in the fields until...

The Empress Of Mars Kage Baker Tor, May 12 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 0765318903 After terraforming a moon colony into a mega profit, the British based Aerean Company has done likewise on Mars. However, unlike the great success on the moon, the Martian project has run into financial trouble as the...

Not Less Than Gods Kage Baker Tor, Mar 16 2010, $25.99 ISBN: 9780765318916 In London in 1825, unmarried Lady Amalthea R. gives birth to a boy. Neither aristocratic parent wants to raise him so Dr. Nennys leaves the newborn with Mr. and Mrs. Bell who recently gave birth to a stillborn. They...

Bird of the River Kage Baker Tor, Jul 20 2010, $25.99 ISBN 9780765322968 In spite of her pledge to her two offspring to lay off the drug, Falena could not resist smoking Yellow that has them wandering from town to town seeking either a diving gig or an uncle; though the latter has become...

Songs of the Dying Earth George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (editors) Tor, Dec 7 2010, $27.99 ISBN: 9780765320865 Sixty years ago Jack Vance issued the classic Dying Earth saga in which magic practitioners, demons, other hostile paranormal and normal species fight for power when the red sun...

I just finished reading The House Of The Stag. This is the second of the three fantasy novels she wrote. I had read The Anvil Of The World a while back and felt it was time to move further into this series. I wasn't entirely prepared for how much I would like this one. My review on Goodreads...

Nothing much on this forum since her passing. Thought it might be about time for a new thread/post. I'm continuing to work my way (in order) through the Company novels (and short stories). Reading The Graveyard Game currently. It's a great read: great story.Great characters. A wonderful...

Kage Baker died this morning. Green Man Review / 24 January 2010

Original review by Elaine Frei: The Company, a 24th century corporation that has learned the secrets of time travel and immortality, has decided in its infinite wisdom - or at least in its quest for ever more profit - to preserve intact a Chumash Indian village on the coast of southern...

Original review by Elaine Frei: Good news for fans of Kage Baker's series of novels of the Company. Mendoza is back, attitude intact and ready to get herself in trouble yet again. Mendoza has spent decades wandering the wilds of northern and central California, happily alone and collecting...

Original review by Elaine Frei: What to do with an immortal cyborg who can't or won't follow the rules? Or with a whole group of cyborgs who were programmed to do things their masters no longer want done, and who - left to their own devices - threaten the very mortals who made them? These are...

Original review by Elaine Frei: In The Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker, does a good job of masquerading as a romance novel set in the England of Bloody Mary Tudor. The reader who picks it up expecting that it is only that is in for quite a surprise. Yes, it takes place, for the most part, in...

Here's a link to this author's website http://www.kagebaker.com/ Quite informative and got some info about her up coming books :D

I'm not sure if anyone can answer my question since I am in the US and this is a UK forum, but does anyone know why "Mendoza in Hollywood" is such a hard to find book in the states? The cheapest copy I could find is about $25.00 for a used copy, when all the other books in the series are...