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Mars is an old world, one that has been mapped by science fiction writers for over a century. The late Nebula and Locus Award winning writer Kage Baker was among the most skilled cartographers to render the Red Planet as full of life and love, hope and heroism. Gathered together here for the first time are all of Baker's Mars stories, beginning with "The Empress of Mars, " for which she won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. It was in this ...

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The first novel of this critically acclaimed, much-loved series introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the twenty-fourth 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 sa...

Dedicated to saving the future by preserving the past, the cyborgs of The Dr. Zeus Company now wonder if they must save themselves. In this fourth book in the Company series, Baker once again takes readers on a wry, intelligent, and absorbing journey into the future and the past.

Ehe die Reiter in ihr abgelegenes Dorf kamen, lebten die Yendri ein beschauliches und friedvolles Leben. Als die Eroberer über sie kamen und sie versklavten, entkamen nur wenige Dorfbewohner in die Wälder. Doch Rebellion war nicht der Weg der Yendri, sie versteckten sich oder leisteten passiven Widerstand und fanden dabei Trost in den Prophezeiungen ihrer spirituellen Führer.Nur einer ist wütend genug, um zurückzuschlagen ¿ Gard das Findelkind...

Originally published in 1999 by Harcourt Brace"--T.p. verso.

Kage Baker, author of the popular and witty fantasy, The Anvil of the World, returns to that magical world for another standalone story of adventure, love, and a fair bit of ironic humor.Before the Riders came to their remote valley the Yendri led a tranquil pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, only a few escaped to the forests. Rebellion wasn't the Yendri way, they hid or passively resisted, taking consolation in the pr...

The Anvil of the World is the tale of Smith and his feud-prone people, the Children of the Sun. Smith, formerly a successful assassin, is trying to retire, hoping to live an honest life in obscurity in spite of all those who have sworn to kill him. But when he agrees to be the master of a caravan from traveling from the inland city of Troon to Salesh by the sea, trouble follows. As always, Baker's approach is charmingly distinctive. Smith's ad...

Offering complete histories, symptom guides, and suggested treatments for rare and fantastical ailments, here is a dose of good humor for every sleep-deprived medical student, overworked physician, hypochondriac, and curious reader.

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In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of arts and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company. Mendoza is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. Her quest is jeopardized by Nicholas Harpole, who stirs unfamiliar emotions within her about her future--with a man she will long outlive.

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In the twenty-fourth century, Dr. Zeus Incorporated discovered the secret of time travel, but only how to move backward. Now cyborg operatives are enduring the epochs of Earth's history -- immortals dedicated to the company's great goal: "to make money and improve the lot of humankind".After centuries of disappointments -- including the death of her lover -- the Botanist Mendoza is stranded at a remote stagecoach inn in the unspoiled desert de...

These eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection, delve further into the history and exploits of the Company. ,  , 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. "Standing in His Light" features Van Drouten's role in the career of the artist Jan Vermeer. , Other s...

A brand new short story collection from Kage Baker, including an original novella set in her ongoing series of The Company, "Mother Aegypt." The Company novels are being released by Tor, and include The Graveyard Game and The Life of the World to Come.

When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. This tile tells the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy a beer on the Tharsis Bulge. It is also the story of Manco Inca, whose attempt to terraform Mars brought a new goddess to life.