I think very well of the Author's work and
it is sad that she departed after such a brief
time in this world but she left a good body of work
to us.

She is the author of the stories about
the Dr.Zeus Corporation which in the 24th Century
discovered Time Travel. Seeing so much had been
lost to time they created Immortal Cyborgs and
seeded them through time to protect the eventual
rise of the Dr.Zeus from its apparently 17th
Century roots. The cyborgs first had to suppress
the Cult of the Goat in prehistorical times and
the models of the cyborgs then are quite different
from those of later times.

The protagonist, Joseph, a Facilitor, of this story is
trying to find his cyborg father Buda who recruited him into
the ranks of immortal agents some 20,000 years ago.
He fears Buda may have been retired by the Company.
His friend Lewis is a Literature Specialist and
is looking for his friend Mendoza a Botanist who became
too involved with 2 mortal men in two different centuries
but whom appear to be twins. After the second time
and the killing of mortals who killed the man she was
fixated on she was disappeared. Lewis assisted by
Joseph are attempting to find clues and in this
search they are betrayed to the Company to a group
of not-quite homo not quite sapiens who are
trogolodytes. We do not learn what happens to
Lewis at their unloving hands.

Well Joseph survives and is freed of the
constant surveilance of the company and is on his
way to reviving Buda.

I don't know why I did not keep up with
this series back in the early 2000s but I found
it in the SF Public Library last week and it is
the most readable thing I have found lately.
Today learned that Kage Baker had died about 16
years ago. But she wrote plenty about the company
and sooner or later I will manage to read a good
deal of it if I live long enough.

I like this book a lot and wish I could
have it in my own library. Just do a search on
it for current prices at the usual online shops.



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BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextremeinvalid.com> writes:

I think very well of the Author's work and
it is sad that she departed after such a brief
time in this world but she left a good body of work
to us.

She is the author of the stories about
the Dr.Zeus Corporation which in the 24th Century
discovered Time Travel. Seeing so much had been
lost to time they created Immortal Cyborgs and
seeded them through time to protect the eventual
rise of the Dr.Zeus from its apparently 17th
Century roots. The cyborgs first had to suppress
the Cult of the Goat in prehistorical times and
the models of the cyborgs then are quite different
from those of later times.

The protagonist, Joseph, a Facilitor, of this story is
trying to find his cyborg father Buda who recruited him into
the ranks of immortal agents some 20,000 years ago.
He fears Buda may have been retired by the Company.
His friend Lewis is a Literature Specialist and
is looking for his friend Mendoza a Botanist who became
too involved with 2 mortal men in two different centuries
but whom appear to be twins. After the second time
and the killing of mortals who killed the man she was
fixated on she was disappeared. Lewis assisted by
Joseph are attempting to find clues and in this
search they are betrayed to the Company to a group
of not-quite homo not quite sapiens who are
trogolodytes. We do not learn what happens to
Lewis at their unloving hands.

Well Joseph survives and is freed of the
constant surveilance of the company and is on his
way to reviving Buda.

I don't know why I did not keep up with
this series back in the early 2000s but I found
it in the SF Public Library last week and it is
the most readable thing I have found lately.
Today learned that Kage Baker had died about 16
years ago. But she wrote plenty about the company
and sooner or later I will manage to read a good
deal of it if I live long enough.

I like this book a lot and wish I could
have it in my own library. Just do a search on
it for current prices at the usual online shops.

Just recently reread most of the "Company" series books. Very
enjoyable. In terms of the chronology, _The Sons of Heaven_ is the
culmination of the series, where all the threads come together and we
find out what happens to the Dr. Zeus company and the various characters
on July 8, 2355, where history seems to stop as far as the immortal
characters know. Kage Baker wrote several more books that were published
later, but in terms of the chronology take place in parallel or expand
upon the earlier story. I am currently reading _Not Less Than Gods_,
which tells more of the backstory of Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the
second of the mortal men that Mendoza got involved with.
--
-Don_from_AZ-

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