false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172603914m/197041.jpg 197041 4 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. 1396619 2004 The Life of the World to Come (The Company, #5) total:251|5:56|4:116|3:66|2:11|1:2| 251 966 321 15 3 0 false true Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Feb 06 19:22:01 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 19:24:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:57:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:44:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 19:15:33 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 19:30:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:30:12 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:58:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 11:39:47 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 11:40:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 01:42:29 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 01:42:48 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Sep 03 11:44:37 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 11:44:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 23:07:10 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 23:09:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 08 20:54:04 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 08:40:01 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Jan 05 18:42:44 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 14:50:11 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 13:09:03 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 13:10:09 -0700 2008
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