Catégorie : The Company
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Playing with the Company 8: Raise the Jolly Roger!
“You bloody idiot, you know better than to mix yer liquors!” Kage Baker, The Life of the World to Come Characters in the Company series have a peculiar look at history. The future depicted in the novels is bland. Past times is where interesting stuff happened: cowboys, Indians, and of course pirates. To truly understand pirates, you…
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Playing with the Company 7: Dissipating Shadows
« Almost the first thing the Company discovered, when it went into this time travel business so many ages ago, was that history cannot be changed. Recorded history anyway. But if you work within the parameters of recorded history, you actually have quite a bit of leeway, because recorded history is frequently wrong, and there are…
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Playing with the Company 6: Kage Baker online
This is an incomplete list of online references about Kage Baker on Internet, to be updated little by little. Begin your journey on the Kage Baker official website. Then sail to Kathleen’s blog. (Kathleen Baker continues her sister’s work.) On your way for further reading, stop by the excellent Wikipedia notices about Kage Baker and…
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Playing with the Company 5: a World Made by Greed
“He held out his hands and added brightly, “And it cuts overhead costs by sixty percent!” Kage Baker, The Sons of Heaven Greed, not the greater good The novels of the Company describe a future where capital comes to dominate the whole history of the world, where stock in a company entitles to a share…
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Playing with the Company 4: Words about the Silence
« [Dr. Zeus] seemed to be blind to whatever might lie beyond 9 July 2355 AD.« Kage Baker, The Sons of Heaven In the Company novels, the future is off limits; Dr. Zeus can only project its power into the past and the present. No one knows what lies beyond 2355, because no time traveler has…