Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers
This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including The Queen in Yellow, written exclusively for this compilation.
In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents - once human, now centuries-old time-travelling immortal cyborgs - as they attempt to retrieve history's lost treasures. Botanist Mendoza's search for the rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape in 1844 Spanish-held Santa Barbara, facilitator Joseph's dreamlike solicitation of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, and marine salvage specialist Kalugin's recovering of an invaluable Eugene Delacroix painting from a sunken yacht off the coast of Los Angeles in 1894 are included.
Contents:
- Noble Mold
- Smart Alec
- Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin
- Old Flat Top
- The Dust Enclosed Here
- The Literary Agent
- Lemuria Will Rise!
- The Wreck of the Gladstone
- Monster Story
- Hanuman
- Studio Dick Drowns Near Malibu
- The Likely Lad
- The Queen in Yellow
- Hotel at Harlan's Landing
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Kage Baker
Kage Baker (1952–2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Kage Baker was born in Hollywood, California and lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.
Kage Baker is best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1997, and her first novel, In The Garden of Iden, by Hodder & Stoughton in the same year. Other notable works include Mendoza in Hollywood (novel, 2000) and "The Empress of Mars" (novella, 2003), which was nominated for a Hugo Award.
The Company
The Company consists of eight primary books, and includes ten additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
