Peter S. Beagle, Author, Kage Baker, Author, Kelly Link, Author . Prime $14.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7325-7
The eclectic second installment of Prime's annual anthology draws equally from venerable genre magazines like Weird Tales
and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
and more literary publications like McSweeney's
and The...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $25.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1890-9
Baker seamlessly expands her 2004 Hugo and Nebula–nominated novella of the same title into tale of nonconformist survival. Widow Mary Griffith and her daughters relocate to an oddly anachronistic Mars, a world dominated by the badly run British...
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Kage Baker. Tachyon (Legato, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-129-9
This collection by the late Baker (1952–2010) brings together five previously published tales of trans-temporal tampering by the cyborgs of the far-future Company and their human precursors, along with an original collaboration between Baker and her
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Kage Baker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-100449-2
This entertaining romp, the fourth in Baker's the Company series, continues the excellent premise: time traveling, immortal cyborgs who were recruited in the past as mortal children seek to enrich Dr. Zeus's Company by rescuing artifacts, artworks,...
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Kage Baker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100448-5
The tart-tongued immortal heroine of Sky Coyote returns in Baker's third installment of the Company series. Still reeling from the loss of her lover, the mortal Nicholas Harpole, who burned at the stake in 1555, Mendoza has been reassigned by Dr....
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Kage Baker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100354-9
Cunningly blending a pre-Columbian past with a 24th century extrapolated from every adult's nightmare about the younger generation, Baker's second installment in her Company series proves a witty match to In the Garden of Iden. Fresh from a cushy R&R
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Kage Baker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100299-3
Looking for a lost plant, an immortal, nearly 1000-year-old botanist returns to the 16th century from the 24th in this lively debut. On her first trip back through time, Mendoza lands in the England of 1554, just after the accession of Mary Tudor,...
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Kage Baker, Author Tor Books $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1455-0
The latest, slightly disappointing volume in Baker's highly regarded Company series (The Life of the World to Come , etc.) incorporates previously published short stories within a larger narrative framework. Immortal cyborgs have worked behind the...
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Kage Baker, Tor, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2296-8
Fans mourning Baker’s death earlier this year will be comforted by this gentle conclusion to 2009’s The House of the Stag and 2010’s The Anvil of the World. Teen Elissa is left orphaned and guilt-ridden when her addict mother dies in a diving...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $25.99 (319p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1891-6
The ninth Company novel (after 2007's The Sons of Heaven
) introduces Edward Bell-Fairfax, a child of mysterious origins who gradually discovers that he's not quite like ordinary people. Born to an unmarried aristocratic mother, raised by...
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Kage Baker, Author . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (297p) ISBN 978-1-930846-11-1
This excellent collection brings together 14 of Baker's short stories about "The Company," three of them unpublished. Select humans have been plucked from various epochs and turned into enhanced, immortal, time-traveling cyborgs,...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1745-2
Culture clashes resound through this multi-layered coming-of-age tale from fantasist Baker (The Anvil of the World
). Shaped in movements like a verbal symphony, the novel follows half-demon foundling Gard from a pastoral childhood punctuated with...
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Kage Baker, Author Subterranean $35 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59606-162-0
This amusing but insubstantial short novel explores history and the limits of free will in a more straightforward fashion than Baker’s Company series (In the Garden of Iden
, etc.). Sturdy, good-natured John James, a 17th-century Caribbean...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $25.95 (430p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1746-9
This convoluted conclusion to Baker's Company novels (after The Machine's Child
) explores the events leading up to July 8, 2355, the moment when the Silence falls and all future contact is cut off for the immortals and cyborgs who travel...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-765-31551-9
In Baker's fast-paced new Company novel, the sequel to The Life of the World to Come
(2004), Alec Checkerfield shares his cyborg body uncomfortably with the Recombinant personalities of 19th-century spy Edward Bell-Fairfax and 16th-century...
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Kage Baker, Author . Night Shade $26.95 (231p) ISBN 978-1-59780-051-8
In this enchanting, if melancholy, story collection from Hugo– and Nebula Award–nominee Baker (Mother Aegypt
), the supernatural matter-of-factly touches the shabby lives of people in small, isolated towns, providing resolution and...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1132-0
Baker's trademark mix of serious speculation and black humor informs this solid addition to her time-travel series that began with 1998's highly regarded In the Garden of Iden
, in which the botanist Mendoza, an immortal female cyborg...
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Kage Baker, Author . Tor $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0818-4
Best known for such time-travel novels as Sky Coyote, Baker now turns her hand to humorous fantasy in this picaresque tale of a retired assassin, Smith, who is just trying to stay on the right side of the law, but who continually finds himself knee-d
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Kage Baker and Kathleen Bartholomew. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59606-464-5
Even a month-long seaside holiday can’t keep the spy-mistresses of the exclusive Nell Gwynne brothel away from trouble in this comic steampunk novella. This time trouble arrives in the form of Tredway Pickett, an expatriate American yachtsman who...
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Kage Baker, Author, J. K. Potter, Illustrator . Subterranean $35 (122p) ISBN 978-1-59606-250-4
This steampunk novella, set in 1844 London, follows the exploits of the harlots of the exclusive establishment known as Nell Gwynne’s, where they gather intelligence for the shadowy Gentlemen’s Speculative Society, a predecessor to the...
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Kage Baker, Author, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Illustrator Tachyon Publications $8 (179p) ISBN 978-1-892391-89-6
Baker's (the Company series) first book for children introduces a young heroine named Emma, who finds herself on the Dunes after an unspecified disaster. Her apparent solitude is an illusion: the Dunes are home to the lost Grand Wenlocke, the...
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Kage Baker, Author, Mike Dringenberg, Illustrator . Night Shade $27 (249p) ISBN 978-1-892389-75-6
Told with splendid clarity, the 13 tales in this collection from Nebula nominee Baker (The Anvil of the World
) are deceptively simple and seem, at first, to be comfortably folkloric. Each then takes a distinctive turn, often an O. Henry twist, and...
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