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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2008...  knepveu | Jul 25, 2008 |  See In the Garden of Iden. (  ) TadAD | May 20, 2008 | (Amy) And yet more Company! Quite frankly, I'm running out of things to say about this series that aren't hideously awfully destructive spoilers for earlier books, which is a thing I prefer to stay away from. I shall limit myself to the following general comments: 1. Every time I finish a book in this series, I find it increasingly difficult not to just pick up the next one right away, despite my general policy of spacing out series books a bit. 2. There has not yet been a Company book at which I did not laugh out loud at least half a dozen times. 3. Damn, but this woman can spin a good yarn. So, yeah, I'll leave it at that, scanty review though it may be. And now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go read the book I picked up to keep myself from reading the next Company book right away... ( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/ze... ) (  ) libraryofus | Apr 11, 2008 | The Graveyard Game was a decent thriller, and swept me along. In general, my reaction to these books has been (1) she's stretching an interesting story into too many books, and (2) everything reminds me of something else. (In no particular order, some of these have been: All of Me, Ruddigore, Captain Feathersword, Real Science....) So the series is above average, and I'll keep on reading to find out how the series ends, but I don't think I'll miss it when I'm done. ( ) 530nm330hz | Dec 27, 2007 | The Graveyard Game - Kage Baker (9/10) More brilliance from Kage Baker. With this one, we finally leave our past and move into the author's imagined future. Because the story spans a couple of centuries, she is forced to use a narrator to fill us in on the changes over time. This probably shouldn't have worked, but it did, and with panache and style. As Joseph and Lewis try to find out what happened to Mendoza during and after the events of "Mendoza in Hollywood" we discover more about the Company, more about the cyborgs scattered through history and get provided with more and more questions about what is really going on. Rather than being annoying, it is all fascinating and my dedicated read of the series (Company book, other book, Company book etc) will continue. I couldn't wait for my friend to send me more books so I'm now making use of the library and have everything, including the last book that is published next week, on reserve. (  ) rocalisa | Nov 19, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com's Best of 2001 (ISBN 0765311844, Paperback)"Sin exists," says Joseph, an immortal cyborg agent employed by Dr. Zeus, Inc., and in this fourth novel of Kage Baker's Company series, it certainly does. The Graveyard Game follows agents Joseph and Lewis as they try to find their missing friend Mendoza, who's been exiled to the Back Way Back as punishment for anti-Company activities.Dr. Zeus, a time-travel corporation, created cyborgs to selectively preserve artifacts from the past for the edification of the 24th century, when the Company exists. But as the centuries go by for the agents, they hear strange rumors of a "silence" in the year 2355. Ominously, cyborgs who try to investigate disappear forever, hidden away or shut down by Dr. Zeus. Joseph and Lewis become obsessed with finding Mendoza, and along the way, they uncover evidence of bizarre and dangerous Company deeds. Joseph finds strange underground holding cells, with "retired" agents in vats of preserving fluid. Meanwhile, Lewis researches the activities of Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the odd mortal who was with Mendoza when she disappeared. The two get together to discuss their disheartening quest in present-day Ghirardelli Square. Cyborgs get stoned on chocolate, and they order round after round of hot cocoa, even snorting the stuff, until a Company security tech finds them:
On the floor between their respective briefcases was a souvenir bag stuffed with boxes of chocolate cable cars, and the table was littered with foil wrappers from the chocolate they had already consumed.... The security tech scanned them and recoiled slightly at the level of Theobromos in their systems. He surveyed the litter of foil wrappers and empty cups, regarded the cocoa powder in Joseph's beard, and sighed. Two old professionals on a sloppy bender.The Graveyard Game, the best and darkest Company novel yet, showcases Kage Baker's smart, witty style. She teases readers with enough evidence of Company nastiness to make us root for the sometimes morally shifty cyborgs, while continuing to further the substantial plot. It's an extremely satisfying chapter in an excellent science fiction series, one that sets the stage for the confrontation to come. --Therese Littleton (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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