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The latest, slightly disappointing volume in Baker's highly regarded Company series (The Life of the World to Come, etc.) incorporates previously published short stories within a larger narrative framework. Immortal cyborgs have worked behind the scenes throughout human history, ostensibly to rescue great works of art, endangered species and other victims of human and natural disasters. Supposedly, Dr. Zeus, the 24th-century company that used time travel to create the cyborgs back in prehistoric times, is doing this for the good of all humanity, but previous books have dropped hints that things aren't exactly what they seem and that Dr. Zeus has powerful ulterior motives. Now, through these connected tales and Baker's frame, which focuses on a corrupt cyborg leader named Labienus, we gain new insight into the complexities of cyborg politics, while the existence of another human species, Homo sapiens umbratilis, holds out a dark promise for humanity's future. Though the individual episodes read well, they add up to a somewhat disjointed whole. (Nov.)
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Since his first days as a cyborg, when he was a near deity in Sumeria, Executive Facilitator General Labienus has had centuries to work at subverting the Company, and while history may not be changeable, it is a web of lies that he aims to change so the world fits his idea of paradise. We follow his meditations, starting with when he met Budu, one of the old Enforcers. He remembers the beginning of the experiment with Homo umbratilis, and Facilitator Victor, whom Labienus is slowly co-opting and who began believing in the indestructibility of his kind and in the things the company tells them, but slowly becomes disillusioned by the lies of history. The book unfolds through both Labienus' memories and the journals and artifacts of Victor and others caught in his web. As in the other Company novels, the time line spanned is prodigious, despite which Baker never stints on characters and details that capture the reader's fancy. Regina Schroeder
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Great read!, Nov. 5 2005
This latest in Kage Baker's series of stories about Dr. Zeus Inc, a mortal controlled company with time travelling immortal cyborg employees who roam through history looting the lost treasures of the past is one of her best. It's also one of the darkest as we follow the the cyborg executive Labienus as he secretly begins to build a power base, plotting against other cyborgs rivals. Lower level and rogue cyborgs who pose a threat to him are ruthlessly assassinated (apparently there are limits to immortality after all). As the plundering of valuables goes on, the mass slaughter of humans in the disasters of earthquakes, plagues and other not so natural disasters under the cover of history providing a pleasant diversion for Labienus's amusement.

And all the while the clock is ticking, counting down to the year 2355 where time travel abruptly stops (no one knows why) and the immortal cyborgs will turn and face their weak human masters for control over everything.

The book is a somewhat disjointed series of connected stories with Labienus being the common thread, but Baker keeps the story moving along quite nicely. My only disappointment is that there are quite a few open plot and character threads hanging from previous books and this latest one really only adds to them and resolves little. We still seem so far away from the end game.

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