Andare, Partire, Tornare ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kage Baker Rereading _In The Garden of Iden_, to be followed by the rest of the books by Kadge Baker. I need to start getting my hands on the short stories (they have them at fictionwise) and somehow acquire a copy of this month's Asmov, as I think one of them is in there. For those of you who haven't read the books, I highly reccomend them. They deal with a group of people who have been rescued from the past, adapted into cyborgs, and who work for a company called Dr. Zeus. This may sound too hard science-fictionish for some, but the books aren't all about rocket ships and the FUTURE, but rather about what it means to be immortal but working with mortals, and what the future is about, and also what the past is like. Most of the books are set in the past, with the first one in England during the time right before Elizabeth I's rise to power. They are truly excellent books. Better yet, they are a series that is progressing to a definite end. There's a bit of a worry as to whether she can produce an ending as good as the buildup, but at this point, I'm pretty much willing to forgive her anything, and believe that she will pull it off. This book report was brought to you by the Cyborg Friendship League (why should the killer monkeys have all the fun?) 11:33 a.m. - 2001-12-07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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