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Bezig met laden... In the Garden of Iden (Company) (origineel 1997; editie 2005)door Kage Baker
Informatie over het werkIn the Garden of Iden door Kage Baker (1997)
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |    ) Eurekas | Apr 15, 2023 | freixas | Mar 31, 2023 | La botánica Mendoza, rescatada de niña de las garras de la Inquisición española, es uno de ellos. Un cyborg entrenado por el Dr. Zeus para reconocer y salvar plantas en peligro de extinción que en el futuro puedan ser usadas para fabricar medicinas. Su primera misión es recoger muestras en el jardín de Sir Walter Iden, en la Inglaterra isabelina. Como todos sus camaradas, Mendoza cree estar por encima de los seres humanos entre los que ha sido enviada. Pero por desgracia para ella, se encontrará con el secretario de Sir Walter, Nicholas Harpole, un hombre apasionado cuyas creencias religiosas al borde de la herejía los pondrán a ambos en un terrible peligro. Natt90 | Jun 23, 2022 |  ) adnohr | Jun 27, 2021 |
 In the Garden of Iden is Kage Baker's debut novel of "The Company." It's a science fiction novel set in the 1550s, during the reign in Britain of Queen Mary. Baker's fluid style is a joy to read and her transformation from "modern" English to Renaissance and back to modern is wonderful. This is a marvelous debut and I can't wait to read more in the series.  Right off, the title lets you know that this is a story about loss of innocence. If you're one of those people who are put off by obvious metaphors, don't let that stop you from reading this book. It manages to be quite funny and terrifying at the same time. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)The Company (1) Is opgenomen inHeeft als een commentaar op de tekst
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML: The first novel of Kage Baker's critically acclaimed, much-loved series, The Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company. Breathtakingly detailed and written with great aplomb, In the Garden of Iden is a contemporary classic of the science-fiction genre. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I did feel the plot, engaging and moving as it was, had enough material for a short story, not a novel. But it's a debut, and I will definitely pick up more volumes in this series.
Recommended to fans of Connie Willis! (