Synopses & Reviews
The year is 1699, the place the Lost City in the heart of the Mayan jungle -- but in fact it's New World One, a rest-and-rec center for Dr. Zeus's hardworking immortal cyborgs. (The margaritas at the Palenque Poodle are excellent.)
Enter Facilitator Joseph. He's been given a new assignment -- and a tough one. Joseph sailed with the Phoenicians, was a priest in Egypt, a politician in Athens, secretary to a Roman senator ... but now he must go to Alta California, to the Chumash of Humashup. His mission: to get these Native Americans, their entire village, to agree to an exodus into the future.
With the same imagination and wit that garnered rave reviews for In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker gives us a glimpse, at times unsettling, into the future, the past, and the inner workings of the Company and reflects further on the ways of human violence, religious faith, and greed.
Synopsis
Can a rich Native american culture be saved from the destruction of white settlement? In the second installment of Kage Bakers heralded Company series, cyborgs interact, often humorously, with a pre-Columbian Chumash village. “An action-packed but thoughtful read” (Dallas Morning News).