The Machine's Child
By Kage Baker
(Tor Science Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 9780765354617, 368pp.)
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Science Fiction - General
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Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but first they must learn how to live together, because all three happen to be sharing Alec's body. What they find when they discover Mendoza is even worse than what they could imagined, and enough for them to decide to finally fight back against the Company.
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 The Machine's Child
"The latest novel in Baker's Company series begins a new phase of temporal warfare that stretches from 300,000 years in the past to the distant future. Genuinely appealing characters and an inspired approach to the mechanics of time travel make this a solid work of sf adventure." -Library Journal
"With this novel [Baker] brings her saga another step closer to its much-anticipated resolution. There is a multitude of characters and plot details of which to keep track, but Baker marshals them all with wit, economy and flair." -The San Francisco Chronicle
"A lovely addition to the Company saga." --Booklist
"Baker invests the book with plenty of inventive energy and absurdity." -Publishers Weekly
"Baker does it again in the latest Company novel. There's more than enough action, adventure and compelling character interaction to keep even a casual reader of the series riveted to the further adventures of hapless cyborg Mendoza and her three-fold lover, Alec Checkerfield." -Romantic Times BookReviews
"The Machine's Child is exciting and moving--a great weight of storytelling lies behind it, a dam poised to burst, and tension can only build, the characters only gain in heroic consequence and comic energy." --Locus
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