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The Machine's Child (Company)

The Machine's Child (Company)

by KageBaker (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

    $19.96
Synopsis

Alec Checkerfield's piratical AI, Captain Morgan, has masterminded the rescue of Mendoza the botanist. It takes a lot to kill an immortal, and they tried hard to kill Mendoza, whose body is destroyed and whose memory has been nearly totally erased. She is grown a new body and raised to consciousness. The captain has also retrieved the personalities of her dead lovers, Nicholas and Edward, who are clones of Alec and now inhabit the same body as Alec, an uncomfortable symbiosis. Everyone's favourite immortal cyborg, Mendoza, and the three incarnations of her not-quite-human love, Nicholas/Bell-Fairfax/Alec are all together for the first time. And now they can really begin to fight back against The Company. The Machines Child is the one fans have been waiting for, the start of a complex and gripping war along the timelines.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 19 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0765315513
ISBN 13: 9780765315519

Media Reviews
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 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 Guin Kage Baker is the greatest natural storyteller to enter the field since Poul Anderson. -Gardner Dozois 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 on The Children of the Company 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) on The Life of the World to Come
Author Bio
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