Series
Company (Kage Baker)
Kage Baker & Kathleen Bartholomew · 8 novels · 6 novellas · 12 novelettes · 12 short stories · 3 collections · 1997–2015
Kage Baker's Company novels imagine a secretive 24th-century corporation, Dr. Zeus Incorporated, that recruits children throughout history and remakes them into immortal cyborg operatives who quietly harvest art, biological specimens, and lost treasures for the future. The saga follows operatives such as the botanist Mendoza across centuries of missions, building toward the unexplained blackout in the corporation's own records after the year 2355. Later volumes, some completed with Kathleen Bartholomew after Baker's death, close out the operatives' long, involuntary service.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
- The Company short fiction(29 works)
- The Company Collections(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(4 editions)
Map
Company (Kage Baker) at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1990s10
- 2000s27
- 2010s4
Shape
8 novels · 6 novellas · 12 novelettes · 12 short stories · 3 collections
2 authors · completed series
reads like:science fictionimmortalityour world19th centuryreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 52% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book23 of 41 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Catchdarkest
- Rude Mechanicalsbrightest
- In the Garden of Idencalmest
- Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kaluginmost intense