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Original Title: | In the Garden of Iden |
ISBN: | 0765314576 (ISBN13: 9780765314574) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | The Company #1 |
Characters: | Mendoza, Nicholas Harpole |
Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for First Novel (1999) |
Kage Baker
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.77 | 5149 Users | 530 Reviews
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Title | : | In the Garden of Iden (The Company #1) |
Author | : | Kage Baker |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
Published | : | December 27th 2005 by Tor Books (first published January 1st 1997) |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy |
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This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company.
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I cry mercy. Love the concept, and the first third or thereabouts was good, but everything after: the barely there plot, the romance, manor life in the English country, pretty much everything, was all dull, dull, dull. I was disappointed in the lack of sci-fi and the history that was only spoken about and never lived through, so it didn't deliver on either account. Sure, the author can string a sentence together, there were a couple of amusing lines, and the Elizabethan English seemed well-done2.5 stars. The premise of this book (and the whole series) is really original and clever and I thought the introduction of the main character was very well done. That said, the story after that dragged on and we didn't get to learn enough about "the Company." I will certainly read the next book and have high hopes that the inner workings of the Company will play a much bigger role. Nominee: Locus Award for Best First Novel (1999)
I very much enjoyed this little time travel story, which is set mostly in England during the bloody reign of Mary Tudor. It's quite funny in places, but it's narrated as a melancholy flashback and never disguises the fact that it's heading towards an inevitably sad ending.This is a neat twist on the usual time travel story: our protagonists aren't exactly time travelers themselves. Rather, they were rescued from certain death as children and given enhanced, immortal bodies. They spend eternity
Part of my 2020 Social Distancing Read-a-thonNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition.An enjoyable time travel romp with a twist, namely the shaping of the present through a clever planimmortal servants created in the past by the time travelling folk. Baker combines time travel and immortality in an interesting way, obviously having given the possibilities inherent in time travel some serious thought. I was intrigued by the immortals and their feeling that they aren't human any more. Rather like
Here's a book where I love the concept of the book a lot more than than execution.The concept of using time travel to go back, create a new race of immortal human beings who will then preserve certain aspects and artifacts from history is an intriguing one. The opening segments of "In the Garden of Iden" that set up this concept and idea are intriguing, fascinating and had me hoping something brilliant would happen in the novel.Unfortunately, that never really materializes--at least not in this
Well now that was something different. A starter of SciFi, with a main course of historical fiction, followed by a dessert of botany. A bit of all three but none dominating. There is certainly a great story line there. A company going back in time to collect items to save and invest in things to make them massively wealthy, messing around with immortality, save the whales or in this case a Roman Holly bush, but you need to build the story around the idea and not just have it as a couple of lines
hello there, little romance. i see you! you are trying to hide, aren't you? well you picked some good camouflage, i must say. you've concealed yourself within a fairly operatic setting: the tale of an immortal teenage cyborg employed by a secretive and futuristic Company, sent on missions in our far-flung past to save extinct plants, waiting for the day that your future finally catches up with your employer's apparently golden present. it is quite a setting, i almost didn't see you there! you
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