In the Garden of Iden (The Company)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765314576 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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In return, all she has to do is travel through time on a series of assignments for the Company and collect endangered botanical specimens. What 5-year-old Mendoza, on the brink of being tortured as a Jew, is totally unprepared for is to be rescued by the Company--the ultimate bureaucracy of the 24th century--and made immortal. Nicholas has his own badly kept secret: he's proudly Protestant at a time when Queen Mary and Philip of Spain are on a Catholicizing rampage. (There are hilarious moments that call to mind the Coneheads, who claimed to be from France when caught doing anything peculiar.) Sir Walter's secretary, Nicholas Harpole, is immediately suspicious of and hostile towards the strange "Spanish" visitors, which prompts Mendoza to fall in love with him. In 16th-century Spain, everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition, as they have a well-known tendency to cart people off to their dungeons on trumped-up charges. Their intent is to gather herb samples from the garden of
Essential background, but weakest of the Company novels JAC Let me start by saying that I enjoyed In the Garden of Iden. Like all Kage Baker, it's a fun and compulsive read. It also gives some very essential background to help Ms Baker kick off her Company novels. That being said, I found this to be the weakest entry in what is otherwise a thrilling, always enjoyable, often thought provoking series.I originally discovered the Company series through Ms Baker's short stories, specific. Amazon Customer said A fresh interesting book. Mendoza is a A fresh interesting book Amazon Customer Mendoza is a 4 year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the 24th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the "A fresh interesting book" according to Amazon Customer. Mendoza is a A fresh interesting book Amazon Customer Mendoza is a 4 year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the 24th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the 2A fresh interesting book Amazon Customer Mendoza is a 4 year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the 24th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . A fresh interesting book Amazon Customer Mendoza is a 4 year girl being destined to die at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition until she's rescued by an operative of Dr. Zeus Inc. This is a company from the 24th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . th century that founded a school in Neolithic times to create immortals to serve their needs throughout history. Mendoza is made immortal through bionics, etc, educated, and sent off on her first mission to England, which happens to be enduring the reign of . Great SF and Great Historical Fiction K. Mason The best time travel stories are not only great Science Fiction, but great Historical Fiction as well, dropping a POV character with a modern perspective (like the reader's) into the past and really highlighting the differences and similarities between the two.I was a tough customer for this book, as early modern England was my specialty area as a history student. And yet, I found nothing to make me grumpy. Instead, the sto
One of these is Mendoza the botanist. But 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). Zeus. This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. 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