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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Upon reading this book for probably the third or fourth time, not only am I enjoying it even more, but I'm struck by the relationship between the Captain and Alec, and by extension, the relationships the AI has with the other main characters. I don't think I've come across anything quite like it in any other book. ( ) The latest "Company" novel. I don't remember many of the details of the five preceding books, but I'll always remember Mendoza, my favorite crankily lovelorn cyborg. The main story is about Alec Checkerfield, the boy introduced in some of the stories from White Knights, Black Projects. It brings us to two or three years before the silence, explains much, but nothing is yet resolved. (February 16, 2005) This one brings together two of my favorite characters in an unexpected plot twist that has been building over a few of the books. I loved the way it was done and I loved this book. I totally understand why people love rereading this series because you become really invested in the lives of these not-quite-humans. http://webereading.com/2017/08/a-big-stack-of-books-fantasy-and-sci-fi.html This novel, which I think is the fifth in Kage Baker’s “Company” series (not counting a collection of short stories), follows the adventures of Alec Checkerfield. a hybridized human created by the Company for purposes that remained unknown, by him or the reader, until now. This selection is primarily about Alec’s search for who and what he is, aided by his AI companion, Captain Morgan. That he, or more accurately, one of his previous clones was something different was suggested in the first Company novel, In the Garden of Iden. In The Life of the World to Come, we find the answer. Alec, quite understandably, has issues with being created and used by the Company and decides to act against them, only to find he is being used by them again. No spoilers but at the end, Alec has a bigger personal problem, which, if he were fully human, might be diagnosed as schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder. It does end in something of a cliffhanger - to be continued in The Machine’s Child. I have enjoyed all of Kage Baker’s Company novels and this is no exception. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back.Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality."Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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