Aili's review
In the Garden of Iden (The Company)
by Kage Baker
The original cover art--a Tudor-era portrait done in binary code--was beautiful. Sadly, the book was reissued with this generic scifi cover.
A nitpick: why would you assume "some dude" invented time travel? I mean, Baker says on the very first page it was invented by "a cabal."
Hm, I guess I remembered "Zeus" as an individual. And since he/she/it is fundamentally murky and mysterious (esp. since I don't plan to read the rest of the books in the series) AND it doesn't matter to the plot of this particular book, I didn't give it any particular weight. Oh well.
[I forget these reviews are public... but this was meant to be a quick-and-dirty review, nothing formal.:]
Yeah, "Dr. Zeus" is just one of the names for the Company. I just wanted to make sure you were aware that it was kinda casually sexist.
Aili's review
In the Garden of Iden (The Company) by Kage Baker
Aili's review
rating:
[NB: I'm basically just reading all the books that have piled up in my room so I can give them to Goodwill before I move...]
Nifty premise: sometime in the future, some dude invents a) immortality and b) time travel. So he goes back into the dawn of time and grabs young kids and confers immortality on them, and then they secretly work for him from their time up until the unknown murky future. Problem is that they themselves can't go forward in time, so they have to take on faith that their employer will one day appear and make all their work worthwhile.
This novel (clearly meant to be the first in a series) follows one of these immortals on her first adult mission out into the world, which for her is Elizabethan England.
Problem: Main character's story is pretty interesting for about the first third of the book, until it becomes clear that the major plot involves her romance with a totally emo Protestant Reformation mortal dude. Then the whole story descends into romantic schm...more
Nifty premise: sometime in the future, some dude invents a) immortality and b) time travel. So he goes back into the dawn of time and grabs young kids and confers immortality on them, and then they secretly work for him from their time up until the unknown murky future. Problem is that they themselves can't go forward in time, so they have to take on faith that their employer will one day appear and make all their work worthwhile.
This novel (clearly meant to be the first in a series) follows one of these immortals on her first adult mission out into the world, which for her is Elizabethan England.
Problem: Main character's story is pretty interesting for about the first third of the book, until it becomes clear that the major plot involves her romance with a totally emo Protestant Reformation mortal dude. Then the whole story descends into romantic schm...more
The original cover art--a Tudor-era portrait done in binary code--was beautiful. Sadly, the book was reissued with this generic scifi cover.
A nitpick: why would you assume "some dude" invented time travel? I mean, Baker says on the very first page it was invented by "a cabal."
Hm, I guess I remembered "Zeus" as an individual. And since he/she/it is fundamentally murky and mysterious (esp. since I don't plan to read the rest of the books in the series) AND it doesn't matter to the plot of this particular book, I didn't give it any particular weight. Oh well.[I forget these reviews are public... but this was meant to be a quick-and-dirty review, nothing formal.:]
Yeah, "Dr. Zeus" is just one of the names for the Company. I just wanted to make sure you were aware that it was kinda casually sexist.
