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Sky Coyote: A Novel of the Company
(Hardcover, 1999)
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Author: Kage Baker
This SF novel is the second in a complex, inventive series about Dr. Zeus, a company that uses time-...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0151003548
ISBN-13: 9780151003549
Feb 1999
Publisher: Harcourt
310 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This SF novel is the second in a complex, inventive series about Dr. Zeus, a company that uses time-travel and advanced technology to create immortal operatives who preserve artifacts in the past so that the Company can collect and profit by them in the 24th century. In this installment, the Facilitator Joseph takes on the role of the trickster god Sky Coyote in order to convince an early 18th-century village of Chumash, a Native American tribe based in California, to accompany him to a Company site where their cultural and genetic heritage can be harvested. During his first-person narrative, Joseph also reveals details from his early life (dating back 20,000 years) and some of the Company's dirty secrets.
| Size | | Length: | 310 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: ""You'll understand this story better if I tell you a lie.""
Industry Reviews
The immortal cyborgs of Dr. Zeus's Company dedicate themselves to the preservation and relocation of lost Earth civilizations. When cyborg facilitator Joseph accepts the assignment to convince the Chumash Indians of pre-Columbian California to leave their homes for the stars and thus escape conquest by the Spanish he encounters unexpected problems. Baker's humorous and inventive sequel to In the Garden of Iden (LJ 11/15/97) blends accurate historical research and arch comedy to produce an entertaining tale of time travel and mythic adventure. A good choice for most sf collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/98.]
Jansen
Cunningly blending a pre-Columbian past with a 24th century extrapolated from every adult's nightmare about the younger generation, Baker's second installment in her Company series proves a witty match to In the Garden of Iden. Fresh from a cushy R&R after a supervisory stint in the Inquisition, time-hopping cyborg Facilitator Joseph jaunts to 16th-century Alta California. There, cybernetically outfitted with fur and paws, he apotheosizes to the cannily entrepreneurial Chumash Indian tribe so he can collect them and their entire biosystem for Company studies in the remote future. Joseph's Company is Baker's deliciously wicked platform for satirizing past, present and all-too-likely future human frailties. From sure-handed sendups of 24th-century Cinema Standard speech patterns and a dismayingly suggestive portrait of the Chumash Medical Association staring eyes, knotted hair and an air of too frequent consumption of alkaloids to the Company's sacred Greater Mission Statement, Baker nails her 20th-century targets: societal, religious and oh-so-personal hypocrisy. (Feb.)
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