The Machine's Child: A Company Novel (The Company)

by Kage Baker

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765354616
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Brillant and Funny

Kage Baker has a unique sense of humor that has caused me to laugh out loud on several occasions. Despite being a book with time travel it makes no absurd claims (aside from the premise of time travel). Paints an eerily likely view of a dystopian future.

Nw avenues in plot and writing

I had just completed "Gods and Pawns", a really remarkable book of short stories and novelettes. It is true that this could have been presented as a series of short stories but I think Ms Baker had another plan. She was trying, with all the jumping around in time, to sharpen the focus tighter and tighter toward the eventual ending. (I wish the series could go on forever and it just might if Dr Zeus would ever land in OUR time and give Ms. Baker all those little doohickies making her immortal.) Although it was slightly confusing at first, the idea of the three Alecs (or Edwards or Nichlases) working together in the same body was brilliant. Nothing could match, though, the rebirth of my favorite gal pal, Mendoza, and her rapturous love for her Trinity love. The action was fast and furious and the revelations came from all directions as the fatefull year in which history ends approaches - Joseph figured prominently, rescuing his "Father" Budu, trying to rescue Mendoza from Alec in what was a case of plain old mortal jealousy, running around behind the Company's back. Joseph and Alec are unaware that each of them are fighting Dr Zeus. All the while Alec is furtively making plans for the future while Mendoza sends them to times unknown with each wild bout of lovemaking. And what about the lonely and arguably insane David trapped in the far past? Sensual, bitter, humorous, informative - all the hallmarks of another fantastic entry from the incomparable Ms. Baker.

The Machine's Child

This is the next book in Kage Baker's company series. All of the books have been fun and this one is too. It is better then the last installment but not as good as the Grave Yard Game. It has set up the next book for a major events, as it leaves Mendoza on the beach dealing with a flood of information that will no doubt impact her strongly, but we will all have to wait until the next installment to find out. Can not wait to see how it turns out.

The Machine's Child

This is a whirlwind tour through time. This book has everything and more in it. Victorian spys, pirates, Shakespeare, and Robert Louise Stevenson, all seemlessly woven together to create an adventure tale that would make Stevenson proud. Twists and turns in every direction, I found myself reluctant to set it down.

The end game approaches...

The best Company novel in quite a while. Everyone's favorites are back and causing havoc: Mendoza, Alec/Nicholas/Edward, Joseph. Budu and the AI Captain Morgan are plotting Very Bad Things for Dr. Zeus, whose evil and amorality is brought into even more shocking view. I believe this is the book in which Baker has pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain; in the remaining books, we'll get to watch things crash down. Yee-hah! Still missing in action are Lewis (presumably still held by the fairy/LGM/Homo alternatus contingent) and Kalugin, who last I recall was trapped in a mudslide at the bottom of the Pacific. Facilitators, Enforcers, and plain old Botanists and Literature Specialists should all enjoy this installment.