Description: Praise for Children of the Company A Romantic Times Book Club nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2005 A Kirkus Best Book of 2005 "Kage Baker is the greatest natural storyteller to enter the field since Poul Anderson." -Gardner Dozois "Baker's sixth novel featuring the exploits of the time-traveling corporation known as The Company offers a compelling meditation on the events in the life of one man whose exploits span the course of human history." -Library Journal "Vividly evoked. . . .Baker has a light touch, and her effervescent characterization and talent for social comedy makeThe Children of the Companypicturesque and picaresque, sometimes extremely funny." -Nick Gevers, Locus "Anything Kage Baker publishes I will immediately rush out and read! I am never disappointed. The woman is a marvel. She can take on any voice, in any time, and make it sing high and low."-- Ellen Kushner "Funny, heart-rending, terrifying, pellucid, Baker's magnificent series grows in stature with every installment." -Kirkus, starred review "Through these connected tales and Baker's frame, which focuses on a corrupt cyborg leader named Labienus, we gain new insight into the complexities of cyborg politics, while the existence of another human species,Homo sapiens umbratilis, holds out a dark promise fro humanity's future." -Publishers Weekly "The book unfolds through both Labienus' memories and the journals and artifacts of Victor and others caught in his web. As in the other Company novels, the time line spanned is prodigious, despite which Baker never stints on characters and details that capture the reader's fancy."--Booklist

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