![]() ![]() And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.īut while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. ![]() It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. One of her protagonists is Mendoza, a woman who was rescued from the Spanish Inquisition by the Company but is torn by divided loyalties. In fact some of the immortals were from ancient times, even pre-modern human. This book is the first in a long series of books about "the Company," a mysterious group of people who create a process for making select people (nearly) immortal and then sending them back in time to retrieve priceless artifacts. ![]() She has a wonderful sense of humor and really makes characters come alive. ![]() Unfortunately she passed away a few years ago. Kage Baker wrote a prolific amount of very clever sci-fi literature in her short career. March's book is The Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker. Our book club meets the first Tuesday of the month. ![]()
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