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    <body><![CDATA[I think I like Baker's short stories more than her novels. The Company series has been going on and on (and on and on), and the focus often seems to be on Mendoza or her lover(s) (which I find tiresome). I'm much more interested in these little vignettes: the background stories, the eerie anomalies,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12199338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been utterly absorbed by the Company novels and even got my wife, who normally does not read sci-fi, to leap frog ahead of me in reading the series.  That said, I approached with trepidation because the book is a series of short stories that fills out character development and plot lines in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48126942">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this series, 8 novels time travelling immortal cyborgs, conspiracies over milennia, the it was so good for a time. The last novels did not quite live up to my expectations though. These short stories, and those in other anthologies, felt like an extra bonus. I liked them better than the last...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21765618">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[holy moley, kage's writing riveted me from page 1.  i've been roller-coasting around the entire company series over the last few weeks, since.  out-of-order is just as fun, if not more.<br/><br/>she's at the top of her game, a gifted wordsmith and artist.  and she delightully jumps from one charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54620457">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Baker's Company series has dragged a bit lately, so it was a pleasure to read this collection of short stories.  Each is an excellent tale on its own, filled with action, mystery and a lot of characterization. I love the cyborg's wry asides and their anachronistic mindsets.  This was also the first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10657745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good collection of stories, but then, I'm a fan of Baker's Company stories.  They delivered what I expected, neither more nor less (and one of the stories was one I'd read before).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kage Baker WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS.  MAKING ME HATE ALL OTHER BOOKS BECAUSE YOURS ARE SO MUCH MORE AWESOME. <br/><br/>In all seriousness: Brilliant, imaginative, horrifying short stories in the Company universe.  The kind where you find yourself thinking not only &quot;How did she even come up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16472021">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall this is a satisfying conclusion to the Company series, but I'm still not over my disappointment with what the author did to Mendoza, first in &quot;The Machine's Child&quot; and then in this novel. Mendoza was the character who drew me in to the Company series in the first place, and she doe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3013907">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story in this collection of shorts/novellas is my least favorite, but then I'm not a big Mendoza fan. I like her better when people are talking about her than when she's actually a character. But it gets much better from there. And now I really want to visit Hearst Castle!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another collection of short stories related to Baker's Company series. Two of them I'd read before (guess I didn't need to buy that chapbook - and the one about Vermeer was online) I enjoyed them all, goofy as the whole series is (in a good way) (March 24, 2007)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another collection of wonderfully crafted short stories in the Company universe. &quot;The Catch&quot; is especially brilliant, and very creepy. &quot;Wooooow.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, have to complete the series. These are way entertaining but I always forget who the characters are and what their deal is between books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A excellent collection of Company stories, combining Baker's trademark humor combined with poignancy.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another anthology of short stories in Baker's The Company series.]]></body>
    
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