In the Garden of Iden: a Novel of the Company

by Baker, Kage

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1998 Very Good. Dust Jacket Ex Library Ships from Michigan, U.S.A. Ships within two days. Fast and reliable! Ex Library with usual markings.. Hardcover. Good/Unknown.

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This marvelous hybrid of cynical time-travel novel and tragic romance is the initial volume in a projected seven-book series about Dr. Zeus, or the Company, as it is also known. The Company is a corporation from the year 2355 that utilizes time travel to preserve and subsequently "discover" the treasures of the past, upon which it turns a fat profit. As the people of that far future time find traveling to those days uncomfortable and distasteful, it recruits its operatives from orphans rescued in the past--who are, of course, suitably grateful. The Company pulls 19-year-old Mendoza out of the fetid dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition and trains her to be a botanist. Genetically and mechanically altered to become an immortal cyborg, the 19-year-old Mendoza is sent to the home of Sir Walter Iden in 1544 to save a strain of holly that will eventually be used to cure cancer. Having spent many years in a technologically advanced environment surrounded by other cyborgs, she is frightened and contemptuous of the unmodified, ignorant "mortals." That's why she's so shocked when she falls in love with one of them....