"Baker's characterizations are robust and detailed, as is her development of the historical setting . . . [Readers] will recognize in Baker a fantasist of considerable promise." —Publishers WeeklyThe Dr. Zeus Company, working from the twenty-fourth century, finds orphans in the past and makes them immortal, training them to preserve lost treasure, cultural artifacts, and extinct life forms for the future—and for profit. Mendoza is one of those orphans, rescued from...

From Metropolis to the pre-Technicolor Oz, take a fantastical journey through the wildest frontiers of the silent films of the silver screen.Ancient Rockets brings you the earliest (and cheesiest) special effects, the best and worst directors, the tour de forces and the utter trainwrecks. Forty-nine cinematic odysseys will take you on A Trip to the Moon and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, swinging upon jungle vines with Tarzan and into the terrifying laboratory of D...

Nel Ventiquattresimo secolo la Dr. Zeus, Inc. (altrimenti nota come la Compagnia) offre l'immortalità fisica e la possibilità di viaggiare nel tempo: i suoi agenti continuano a scandagliare i secoli per recuperare antichi tesori d'arte e materiale genetico indispensabile alle ricerche. Mendoza, una specialista in botanica che la Compagnia ha prelevato dalla Spagna del XVI secolo, deve raccogliere alcuni esemplari di rare specie ormai estinte. Ma sul suo cammino incontrerà l'Inquisizione, u...

". . . [and a] deliciously wicked platform for satirizing past, present and all-too-likely future human frailties. . . ." —Publishers Weekly"Agreeably subversive, sometimes hilarious." —Kirkus ReviewsIn his twenty thousand years as a Company agent, Facilitator Joseph has been a priest in Egypt, a secretary to a Roman senator and a legionary, was in Byzantium for the Crusades, and rescued the Botanist Mendoza from the Spanish Inquisition. Bu...

Gli indiani Chumash vivono nella California del 1699, ignari dell'imminente invasione degli esploratori europei. Tra poco, malattie come il vaiolo e pratiche come la schiavitù distruggeranno un intero popolo. È per questo che il cyborg immortale Joseph, proveniente dal XXIV secolo, arriva in California nei panni del Coyote Celeste, la divinità indiana, dando inizio a un piano che dovrà concludersi con il trasferimento dei pellerossa nella speciale riserva della Compagnia del Tempo. Ma l'es...

"A compulsive page-turner that can keep even the most restrained reader on the edge of anticipation from beginning to end. Highly recommended." —BookreporterThe Botanist Mendoza is stranded in the distant past with only her experiments on corn cultivars to pass the time. Such is the punishment for immortals who defy the Company, as she did when she killed six mortal men for the murder of her lover, Edward—who, though he didn’t remember their past,...

**“[Baker’s] a fine prose stylist with a skeptical intelligence and a black sense of humor.” —The Los Angeles Times Book Review“Baker's Company novels are a monumental achievement of imagination and whimsy.” —Starlog**Edward Alton-Bell Fairfax seems to be the perfect Victorian hero. The mysterious circumstances of his birth lead to his rise through public school and a career in the British navy before his recruitment by the Gentlemen’s Speculative Society,...

IL FIGLIO DELLA COMPAGNIA DEL TEMPO "Il suo nome, o quello almeno di cui si è servito negli ultimi duemila anni, è Labieno. È un Facilitatore generale per la Dr. Zeus Incorporated e Responsabile di sezione per l'America nordoccidentale. Ciò significa che detiene un grande potere, più di quanto venga in genere concesso a un cyborg. Se i suoi padroni mortali avessero sentore dell'effettiva entità di tale potere, sarebbero terrorizzati." Questo nuovo capitolo della fortuna serie della Compagn...

IL FIGLIO DELLA MACCHINA Mendoza, agente della Compagnia, è stata costretta a diventare un'immortale, un essere umano geneticamente modificato che può ambire all'eternità, per poi essere bandita in una prigione persa nel tempo. Ora i suoi amanti del passato, Alec, Nicholas e Bell-Fairfax, sono determinati a salvarla, ma prima devono imparare a convivere, perché i tre possiedono un unico corpo. Una volta ritrovata Mendoza, scoprono che la situazione è persino peggiore di quanto potessero im...

**“Wise, sad, sometimes wildly funny—no Company fan will want to miss Baker’s rousing, astonishing conclusion.” —Kirkus ReviewsJuly 8, 2355 . . . the day the Silence falls, an event after which no time traveler has ever been able to venture . . . and from which no communications have ever come back to the past. Is it an immortal cyborg rebellion, as mortals within the Company fear? Or do the mortal masters of the Company exterminate the cyborgs they no longer need...

"By turns hilarious, terrifying, sad, and provocative, and always utterly intriguing. If there’s a better time-travel series out there, go find it." —Kirkus ReviewsFacilitator Joseph has been questioning his place in the Dr. Zeus Company since the Botanist Mendoza, who he loves like a daughter, was disappeared by the Company in 1863. With Literature Specialist Lewis, who also loves Mendoza, he makes it his mission to discover what happened to her. ...

"Keep your eye on Kage Baker! You never know where she's heading next, but it's always worth going there. She's an edgy, funny, complex, ambitious writer with the mysterious, true gift of story-telling." —Ursula K. Le GuinThe Botanist Mendoza was confined to the distant past as a punishment for betraying the Company and spent thousands of years there alone, only meeting her lover, Alec Checkerfield, when his timeship crashed in her cornfield. In ensuring h...