Gods and Pawns - Paperback

by Kage Baker (Author)

"Kage Baker is the greatest natural storyteller to enter the field since Poul Anderson." --Gardner DozoisThe agents of the Dr. Zeus Company can seem like gods or pawns . . . or sometimes both at the same time. Mendoza and Joseph travel to Bolivia to meet a tribe whose members claim to be gods in "To the Land Beyond the Sunset," while in "The Catch," an early Company experiment in immortality goes awry. The Norton Award-winning "A Night on the Barbary Coast" brings Mendoza and Joseph to the California Gold Rush, and "Hellfire at Twilight" sees Lewis take on the Hellfire Club when a precious historical scroll is at stake. These stories and more flesh out beloved characters and mysterious events in the history of the Company. Essential reading for fans of the Company series.

Author Biography

Kage Baker was an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and taught Elizabethan English as a second language. She is best known for the Company books featuring historical time-travel science fiction. Her books and stories were nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and won a Nebula and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she died on January 31, 2010.