The Children of the Company - Hardcover

Baker, Kage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076531455X ISBN 13: 9780765314550

Publisher: Tor Books, 2005

Synopsis

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 integrated into the narrative. Fans of the series will love this book, and new readers will be enthralled.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

Praise for The Life of the World to Come:

"Another entry in Baker's superlative series about Dr. Zeus. . . . An astonishing and thoroughly satisfying installment. What's more, Baker's overall concept and rationale, flawlessly sustained through five books, grows ever more spellbinding and impressive."—Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

“Baker’s trademark mix of serious speculation and black humor informs this solid addition to her time-travel series.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“One of the most consistently entertaining series to appear in the late nineties. The novels read like literary pastiches—echoes of Heinlein and Robert Louis Stevenson fill this one—and the narrative pace matches that of most thrillers.”
—Amazing Stories

“Returning to her popular series featuring characters from the Company, Baker expertly combines romance, myth, and high adventure.”
—Library Journal

“Alec is quite a character, especially for the sedate twenty-fourth century, and in Baker’s skillful hands, his story is well told and engrossing.”
—Booklist
“The strengths of The Life of the World to Come are many. The structure of the novel, moving full circle and back and forth through time, is ingenious and deft, creating a mesmerizing chain of cause and effect, effect and cause, as in the best time-travel fiction....an excellent novel, and absorbing post-historical bildungsroman and an impressive upping of the “Company” sequence’s ante.”
--Locus

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 076531455X
• ISBN 13: 9780765314550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304