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Re: Graveyard Game by Kage Baker.

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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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