Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company: Company (Paperback)
Autor Kage Bakeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2006
This is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. The death of her lover has been followed by centuries of heartbreak. She spends a period of time in early twentieth century Hollywood in the days of D.W. Griffith, and then Mendoza is in the midst of the Civil War, and runs into a man that looks disturbingly similar to her lost love. She is about to find love again, and be in more trouble than she could ever have imagined.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780765315304
ISBN-10: 0765315300
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 213 x 140 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Tor Books
Seria Company (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0765315300
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 213 x 140 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Tor Books
Seria Company (Paperback)
Notă biografică
Kage Baker was an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and taught Elizabethan English as a Second Language. Her books include In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, and Mendoza in Hollywood, among many others. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she lived in Pismo Beach, California, the Clam Capital of the World. She died on January 31, 2010.
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In the twenty-fourth century, Dr. Zeus Incorporated discovered the secret of time travel, but only how to move backward. Now cyborg operatives are enduring the epochs of Earth's history -- immortals dedicated to the company's great goal: "to make money and improve the lot of humankind".
After centuries of disappointments -- including the death of her lover -- the Botanist Mendoza is stranded at a remote stagecoach inn in the unspoiled desert destined to be renamed Los Angeles. Back East, a Civil War is raging. But in Cahuenga Pass, there is little for Mendoza and her fellow operatives to do. Until one day the door swings open and in walks the doppelganger of Mendoza's love. And suddenly the Botanist's life is careening toward disaster . . . again.
Descriere
In the 24th century, Dr. Zeus, Inc. finds the secret to time travel, and immortals dedicated to the company's goal to "make money and improve the lot of humankind" dot Earth's history. The Botanist Mendoza is stranded in a stagecoach inn in the California desert destined to become Los Angeles when the mirror-image of her centuries-dead lover walks through the inn's door.