In the Garden of Iden: A Novel of the Company

from JeremyPreacher

I have read quite a few Company short stories and adored them, but was too lazy to seek out the novels until Kage Baker's recent death. I am happy to report this, her first novel and the beginning of the series, is just as good as her later short work.

from amf0001

Reallly interesting concept, wonderful prologue. Doesn't quite sustain itself and I grew bored, but the ideas were so clever that it didn't matter if the characters were not as engaging as they could have been. After about 100 pages I began to skim, but I still like the ideas it explored and what...

from DLMorrese

The first of Kage Baker's Company novels is part science fiction, part romance, part historical fiction, and part YA coming of age story. It follows the rescue of Mendoza, a young Spanish peasant girl, from the Inquisition through the completion of her first assignment as an immortal cyborg for t...

from Jellyn

I think the idea of The Company is really cool. Time travel! Immortals! Though I do have a question about time paradoxes. If you can't change recorded history, no matter how hard you try, fine. But now it's set up so a lot more of history is being recorded than ever before, right? Isn't that caus...

from wealhtheowwylfing

A really incredible book, possibly the best book in the Company series. Mendoza is saved from the dungeons of the Inquisition to become an immortal cyborg working for Dr.Zeus, a company that has harnassed both immortality and timetravel. For her first trip to "the field", she travels to Tudor Eng...