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In the Garden of Iden
A Novel of the Company
by Kage Baker
ISBN: 0151002991
ISBN-13: 9780151002993
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
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....
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"Baker's time-travel rationale genuinely hangs together. Add on the authentic 16th-century setting. Set it forth in a narrative that sparkles with wit: The upshot is a highly impressive and thoroughly engrossing debut."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harcourt
Published date: 1998
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 329
Publisher's Notes
Poor Mendoza. She's not thrilled about being sent to Renaissance England. It's a cold, backward, unsafe country. Gray curtains of rain. The food crawling with bacteria. No flush toilets. She won't get to see Shakespeare either. He hasn't been born yet. The English hate the Spanish like smallpox, especially now with bulldog-faced Mary on the throne. But Mendoza is no longer a frightened little girl in the dungeons of the Inquisition; she's a Company-trained botanist and has an assignment - to save Ilex tormentosum, a species of holly that will go extinct in a hundred years. She must save it for Dr. Z and the twenty-fourth century. Kage Baker, in her first novel, tells the story of a spunky young cyborg who, though an immortal operative, falls for Master Nicholas Harpole, a mortal with pale blue eyes, good legs, and a smooth, rich tenor that hangs on the air like a violin.
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In the Garden of Iden: a Novel of the Company
Baker, Kage
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. ( more information)
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In the Garden of Iden
Baker, Kage
New York:: Harcourt Brace,, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Kage Baker on the title page. The author's first book. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Small, clear ownership label on the title page, faint stain to the top-edge. The dustjacket is lightly rubbed and edgeworn. ***FREE tracking number on domestic shipments*** ( more information)
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IN THE GARDEN OF IDEN
Baker, Kage
New York: Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0151002991 . Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Mottled green paper covered boards have a purple paper spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. This is the author's first book & the First book in The Company series. "ANd now the news. And it's grim, we regret to say: today England's first official victim of the Counter-Reformation was burnt at Smithfield. John Rogers, Canon of Saint Paul's, longtime Reformation agitator and translator of the Matthew Bible, died in the presence of his wife and children in a ceremony lasting twenty-five minutes." . ( more information)
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