In the Garden of Iden
A Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy book. Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking theyre in...
“And now the news. And it’s grim, we regret to say: today England’s first official victim of the Counter-Reformation was burnt at Smithfield. John Rogers, Canon of Saint Paul’s, longtime Reformation agitator and translator of the Matthew bible, died in the presence of his wife and children in a ceremony lasting twenty-five minutes. Your news team had an operative on the scene and, Diotima, can you tell us about it?”“Well, Reg, you know I’ve been in the field a long time, and I’ve been there for most of the big events in the Tudor regime, but let me say right now that this hits a new low…”Poor Mendoza. She’s not thrilled about being sent to Renaissance England. It’s a cold, backward, unsafe country. Gray curtains of rain. The food crawling with bacteria. No flush toilets. She won’t get to see Shakespeare either. He hasn’t been born yet. The English hate the Spanish like smallpox, especially now with bulldog-faced Mary on the throne. But Mendoza is no longer...
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And as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so was my beloved among the sons. Et cetera. What would I give, to have that night back, out of all my nights? No treasure fleet could hold it, what I'd give; no caravan of mules could carry it away. Kage Baker, In the Garden of Iden // Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking theyre in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: theres an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people cant deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Dont you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. Kage Baker, In the Garden of Iden // The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good. Kage Baker, In the Garden of Iden //
After reading just so many heavy, "big picture" novels, all I need is a light fun read that I'm going to enjoy and is not going to tax my brain that much. Based on the first book in this series, "The Company" is going to fit the bill nicely. That right people, sometimes all I want is a story about an immortal, teenage, time-traveling,... another EDIT: Re-reading this again. Great authors never truly die but it is still pretty shitty when they leave their earthly bodies. ---EDIT: Adding a star. Re-reading this, and discussing it with my sister, I realize that it is truly one of my favorite books. Especially for the opening chapters, when Mendoza narrates her introduction... Started out great, but fell flat in the middle. I was really hoping for more exploration into the time travel element and the "scavenger-hunting" that I was originally interested in reading for in the first place. It just turns into a doomed love story from about a third of the way through and never does anything else. Every other aspect...
