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The Life of the World to Come

Author:	Kage Baker
Publisher:	Tor, 2004
Series:	The Company: Book 5
0. Gods and Pawns 0. Black Projects, White Knights 0. Rude Mechanicals 0. The Empress of Mars 0. Son Observe the Time 0. The Hotel at Harlan's Landing 0. Where the Golden Apples Grow 0. Hellfire at Twilight 0. Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst 0. Plotters and Shooters 0. A Night on the Barbary Coast 1. In the Garden of Iden 2. Sky Coyote 3. Mendoza in Hollywood 4. The Graveyard Game 5. The Life of the World to Come 6. The Children of the Company 7. The Machine's Child 8. The Sons of Heaven 9. The Empress of Mars 10. Not Less than Gods
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Time Travel
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Synopsis

From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.

Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.

In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.

The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back.

Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality.

"Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.

Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.

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