The Company Series by Kage Baker, Kathleen Bartholomew, Paula Guran

3.87 · 208 ratings
  • In the Garden of Iden (The Company #1)
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    In the Garden of Iden (The Company #1)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 1997

    This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. 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... more

  • Sky Coyote (The Company #2)
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    Sky Coyote (The Company #2)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 1999

    Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like Joseph all over the world and all over time... more

  • On Company Time (The Company #1-2)
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    On Company Time (The Company #1-2)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 1999

    Collects 'In the Garden of Iden' and 'Sky Coyote' in one volumecover art by Bruce Jensen

  • Mendoza in Hollywood (The Company #3)
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    Mendoza in Hollywood (The Company #3)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2000

    This is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. 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. The death of her lover has been followed by centuries of heartbreak... more

  • The Graveyard Game (The Company #4)
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    The Graveyard Game (The Company #4)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2001

    Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he never had. Drunk on chocolate and fueled by rage, he's determined to find her however long it takes. Being an indestructible, immortal cyborg gives him an unlimited well of patience... more

  • In Bad Company (The Company #3-4)
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    In Bad Company (The Company #3-4)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2001

    Collected Mendoza in Hollywood and The Graveyard Game.

  • Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (The Company #4.5)
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    Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (The Company #4.5)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2002

    In these tales, sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents--once human, now centuries-old time-traveling cyborgs--as they attempt to retrieve history's lost treasures.

  • The Life of the World to Come (The Company #5)
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    The Life of the World to Come (The Company #5)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2004

    From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love... more

  • The Children of the Company (The Company #6)
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    The Children of the Company (The Company #6)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2005

    Take a ride through time with the devil. In the sixth book of the Company series, we meet Executive Facilitator General Labienus. He's used his immortal centuries to plot a complete takeover of the world since he was a young god-figure in Sumeria. In a meditative mood, he reviews his interesting career. He muses on his subversion of the Company black project ADONAI... more

  • Company Men (The Company #5-6)
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    Company Men (The Company #5-6)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2005

    collects The Life of the World To Come and The Children of the Company.

  • The Machine's Child (The Company #7)
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    The Machine's Child (The Company #7)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2006

    Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but first they must learn how to live together, because all three happen to be sharing Alec's body... more

  • Gods and Pawns (The Company #7.5)
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    Gods and Pawns (The Company #7.5)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2007

    In the Company, you're either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. The eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec. The book opens with the novella, "To the Land Beyond the Sunset," starring Lewis and Mendoza, and involving a strange tribe in Bolivia whose members claim to be gods... more

  • Rude Mechanicals (The Company #7.6)
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    Rude Mechanicals (The Company #7.6)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2007

    An Original Company Short Novel, illustrated by J. K. Potter!

  • The Sons of Heaven (The Company #8)
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    The Sons of Heaven (The Company #8)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2007

    This is how it ends:In The Sons of Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company.Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, resurrected Victorian superman, plans for world domination.The immortal Mendoza makes a desperate bargain to delay him.Enforcer Budu, assisted by Joseph, enlists an unexpected ally in his plans to free his old warriors and bring judgment on his former masters... more

  • The Company They Keep (The Company #7-8)
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    The Company They Keep (The Company #7-8)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2007

    collect The Machine's Child and The Sons of Heaven

  • The Empress of Mars (The Company #8.5)
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    The Empress of Mars (The Company #8.5)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2008

    There were three Empresses of Mars. The first one was a bar at the Settlement. The second was the lady who ran the bar; though her title was strictly informal, having been bestowed on her by the regular customers, and her domain extended no further than the pleasantly gloomy walls of the only place you could get beer on the Tharsis Bulge. The third one was the Queen of England.

  • Not Less Than Gods (The Company #9)
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    Not Less Than Gods (The Company #9)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2009

    On a dark evening in 1824, a lady is offered a ride home in the carriage of a dark and mysterious stranger and a boy is conceived, to the strains of Beethoven's brand-new setting to the Ode to Joy. Groomed from childhood to become a perfect British hero, young Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax proceeds uncertainly through public school, a career in the navy, mutiny and court-martial before discovering his true place in life... more

  • In the Company of Thieves (The Company #10)
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    In the Company of Thieves (The Company #10)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2013

    Espionage, time travel, and affairs gone terribly wrong define this final collection of Kage Baker’s stories in the Company series. The employees of Dr. Zeus Incorporated have discovered a nearly foolproof recipe for success: combining time travel and immortals. The Company, a powerful corporate entity in the 24th century, specializes in retrieving extraordinary treasures out of the past, gathered by cybernetically enhanced workers who pass as ordinary humans... more

  • The Women of Nell Gwynne's (The Company #11)
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    The Women of Nell Gwynne's (The Company #11)

    Kage Baker

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2009

    Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne's... more

  • Nell Gwynne's on Land and at Sea (The Company #12)
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    Nell Gwynne's on Land and at Sea (The Company #12)

    Kage Baker, Kathleen Bartholomew

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2012

    The Ladies of Nell Gwynne's are not your run-of-the-mill demi-mondaines. They are refined and educated ladies all, engaged in the more elegant and expensive forms of carnal delight in order to make their way in a hard world. But they also serve the Queen and the Empire, as the invaluable Ladies' Auxiliary of the technocratic Gentlemen's Speculative Society.However, even the most dedicated operatives need a holiday from time to time... more

  • The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (The Company #The Queen in Yellow)
    #The Queen in Yellow

    The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (The Company #The Queen in Yellow)

    Paula Guran

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2015

    The Mammoth Book of the Mummy presents a collection of classic and contemporary tales on the legendary monster. From the classic Egyptian mummies to modern psudo-mummies and mummies from other cultures, this will include stories by new and established writers like Kage Baker, Ramsey Campbell, Gail Carriger, and more... more

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