false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183739239m/1450916.jpg 514439 6 Ah, pity poor Mendoza. She's a botanist stuck in dusty southern California in 1862, with a broken heart, bizarre companions, lousy food (frijoles and steak again, anyone?), and no plants to study. On top of all that, she's immortal--a cyborg created and maintained by Dr. Zeus, also known as the Company. From its 24th-century headquarters, the Company sends orders back in time to Mendoza and her fellow cyborgs, who collect stuff from the past and send it ahead through time machines for inscrutable uses. But things go from bad to worse for our heroine when drought and smallpox decimate the region, leaving her with nothing to do but pine for her three-centuries-lost mortal love, the martyred Nicholas Harpole. But what's this? Along comes a British agent--the spitting image of Nicholas--hell-bent on upsetting the Union in its hour of need. Mendoza must decide whether to help him in his plot to ensure British rule of the Americas, thereby directly disobeying her Company mandates. She finds herself in a weird race against time itself in this story of science fiction adventure, mystery, and comedy, with not a few reverential in-jokes about SoCal culture thrown in for good measure.<p> Kage Baker's style and wit make her novels among the best reads in science fiction today. <I>Mendoza in Hollywood</I>, the third book in the Company series (10 are planned) is simply delightful, with the focus back on dear, tragic Mendoza, and tantalizing hints of mysterious conspiracies aplenty. Lots of questions remain unanswered, but Baker weaves such a delicious tale, it's a pleasure to be teased. The series began with <I>In the Garden of Iden</I> and <I>Sky Coyote</I>. <I>--Therese Littleton</I> 1441654 2000 Mendoza in Hollywood (The Company, #3) total:299|5:66|4:124|3:88|2:17|1:4| 299 1128 377 25 4 4 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 16:43:41 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 21:22:34 -0700 2009 Mendoza in Hollywood, so I knew where this book was going. However, I had no idea how it was going to get there. Baker managed to kee...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 13:56:08 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 11:24:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 20:49:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 05:52:56 -0700 2009 so have done without the entire boooooring chapter on Griffith's Intolerance.

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