The Children of the Company
By Kage Baker
(Tor Science Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 9780765353672, 384pp.)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (October 13, 2005)
Categories: Fantasy - General, Science Fiction - General
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Take a ride through time with the devil. In the sixth book of the Company series, we meet Executive Facilitator General Labienus. He's used his immortal centuries to plot a complete takeover of the world since he was a young god-figure in Sumeria. In a meditative mood, he reviews his interesting career. He muses on his subversion of the Company black project ADONAI. He considers also Aegeus, his despised rival for power, who has discovered and captured a useful race of mortals known as Homo sapiens umbratilis. Their unique talents may enable him to seize ultimate power. 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 who has become inconvenient. The Hugo-nominated novella "Son Observe The Time," telling that part of the story, is included here in its entirety. Fans of the series will love this book, and new readers will be enthralled.
KAGE BAKER has been an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and has taught Elizabethan English as a Second Language. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she lives in Pismo Beach, California, the Clam Capital of the World.
Praise for Children of the Company
A Romantic Times Book Club nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2005
A Kirkus Best Book of 2005
"Kage Baker is the greatest natural storyteller to enter the field since Poul Anderson." –Gardner Dozois
“Baker’s sixth novel featuring the exploits of the time-traveling corporation known as The Company offers a compelling meditation on the events in the life of one man whose exploits span the course of human history.” –Library Journal
“Vividly evoked. . . .Baker has a light touch, and her effervescent characterization and talent for social comedy make The Children of the Company picturesque and picaresque, sometimes extremely funny.” –Nick Gevers, Locus
"Anything Kage Baker publishes I will immediately rush out and read! I am never disappointed. The woman is a marvel. She can take on any voice, in any time, and make it sing high and low."-- Ellen Kushner
“Funny, heart-rending, terrifying, pellucid, Baker’s magnificent series grows in stature with every installment.” –Kirkus, starred review
“Through these connected tales and Baker’s frame, which focuses on a corrupt cyborg leader named Labienus, we gain new insight into the complexities of cyborg politics, while the existence of another human species, Homo sapiens umbratilis, holds out a dark promise fro humanity’s future.” –Publishers Weekly
“The book unfolds through both Labienus’ memories and the journals and artifacts of Victor and others caught in his web. As in the other Company novels, the time line spanned is prodigious, despite which Baker never stints on characters and details that capture the reader’s fancy.”--Booklist
"[Baker's] effervescent characterization and talent for social comedy make The Children of the Company picturesque and picaresque."
"Funny, heart-rending, terrifying, pellucid, Baker's magnificent series grows in stature with every installment."
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