Book Preview PRAISE FOR KAGE BAKER “She’s an edgy, funny, complex, ambitious writer with the mysterious, true gift of story-telling.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, author of A Wizard of Earthsea “Her style is infused with a subtle humor that had me chuckling… She kept turning me in directions that I hadn’t expected.” —Anne McCaffrey, author … Read more
Book Preview Lady Amalthea R. was a trial to her father, and considered something of an adventuress by the rest of polite society. She reveled in the distinction. Having been told to go straight to hell by her enraged parent after refusing what would have been a respectable and advantageous marriage, Lady Amalthea chose instead … Read more
Book Preview BOOKS BY KAGE BAKER The Company Series In the Garden of IdenSky CoyoteMendoza in HollywoodThe Graveyard GameBlack Projects, White Knights: The Company DossiersThe Life of the World to ComeThe Children of the CompanyThe Machine’s Child Gods and PawnsThe Sons of Heaven Also by Kage Baker The Anvil of the WorldDark MondaysMother Aegypt and … Read more
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Book Preview MAN OF SHADOWS The man has an air of authority. Dignity, too. Gravity, integrity, and all you’d want to see in the face of a judge. He is a consummate actor. His name (at least, the name he has used for the last couple of millennia) is Labienus. He is a Facilitator General … Read more
Book Preview EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE BOTANIST MENDOZA 150,000 BCE (more or less) Rain comes on the west wind, ice out of the blue north. The east wind brings hazes, smokes, the exhalation of the desert on the distant mainland; and hot winds come out of the south, across the wide ocean. The … Read more
Book Preview Praise for Kage Baker and The Company novels “Kage Baker has a very good fantasy career in front of her if Anvil is a sample. Her style is infused with a subtle humor that had me chuckling. I liked her hero for being such a practical and unflappable person. She kept me turning … Read more
Book Preview Praise for Kage Baker and The Company series “Kage Baker has earned praise for her tales of the Company, a future-based outfit that ‘recruits’ throughout time, turns its new troops into immortal cyborgs, and sends them out to fill in the blank spots of history. . . . Look for it! Baker does not disappoint!” … Read more
Book Preview Praise for Kage Baker “Kage Baker is the greatest natural storyteller to enter the field since Poul Anderson.” —Gardner Dozois “One of the most consistently entertaining series to appear in the late nineties. The novels read like literary pastiches—echoes of Heinlein and Robert Louis Stevenson fill this one—and the narrative pace matches that … Read more
Book Preview Advance Praise for In the Garden of Iden “The debut of a major talent. Kage Baker is a fresh, audacious, ambitious new voice, wry, jazzy, irreverent, sharp as a razor, full of daring, dash, and elan, sometimes surprisingly lyrical. She is also one hell of a storyteller. If you’re reading something by Kage … Read more
Book Preview FEW AMERICAN PRESIDENTS have left such a polarizing legacy as Harry Truman. Perhaps none have. Historians have ranked him among the greatest and among the worst chief executives. His administration was deeply frowned upon when he left office in January 1953. Less than ten years later, a poll conducted by the prominent historian … Read more
Book Preview Thank you, Anonymous Military Advisor, for always correcting my erroneous military knowledge. Without you, the sentences in my book would look like ‘person grabs gun’. Thank you, Oli, for giving me valuable feedback about my novel. Without you, this book would have remained boring and predictable. Gratitude to my fiancé Arijana, for constantly … Read more
Book Preview Thank you for reading my book. If you enjoy it, then I encourage you to leave a review on the Amazon product page. Also, as a token of gratitude for reading this book, you can go to this page and claim my book Scary Stories with B.B. Halloween collection for free. Thank you … Read more
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Book Preview Praise for A Place to Stand: “A Place to Stand is about place in the largest, most flexible sense of the term: as home, but also as the soil of one’s roots and as the literary pantheon into which one fits. In that sense the book belongs to the subgenre of prison tales … Read more
Book Preview “Ryan!” Heedless of his own injuries, J.B. bolted to his side, firing his Uzi through the veil of smoke. Grabbing Ryan by the legs, he dragged him back to the wall. “How bad is it?” “Not…good. I know that much,” Ryan gritted. He brought his trembling neck muscles under control to look down … Read more
Book Preview “What’s wrong with him?” Ryan demanded Mildred didn’t answer. She turned away and rammed two stiff fingers down her throat, trying to induce vomiting. It took Ryan only an instant to understand. With a curse he tossed away the canteen. Poisoned. The whole bastard lake was poisoned! Dropping the Steyr, the man clumsily … Read more
Book Preview Mildred’s anguished cry echoed around the circular ruins Ryan’s heart seemed to seize in his chest. He ducked behind the wall and turned. The Armorer stood as if rooted in place. Ryan could clearly see the spot where a small portion of his leather jacket had been pushed aside a fraction of an … Read more