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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Kage Baker's series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come, The Machine's Child. Alec Checkerfield's piratical Al, 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. So she is grown a new body and raised to consciousness. The captain has also...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Company, a powerful corporate entity in the twenty-fourth century, has discovered a nearly foolproof recipe for success: immortal employees and time travel. They specialize in retrieving extraordinary treasures out of the past, gathered by cybernetically-enhanced workers who pass as ordinary people. Or at least they try to pass... There is one rule at Dr. Zeus Incorporated that must not be broken: recorded history cannot be changed. But avoiding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure, a determined Mary Griffith opens the only place to buy a beer on Mars' Tharsis Bulge and soon becomes the center of a terraforming company's machinations, its downfall, and the founding of a new world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
At Cahuenga Pass, in a stagecoach inn on the road to Los Angeles, Mendoza meets her new cyborg colleagues in this third novel of the Company. In the vein of "Grand Hotel, " readers get to know the lives and stories, both sad and funny, of these operatives from the 24th century.
Author
Series
The Company volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.
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