Kage Baker

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1998
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Nell Gwynne

1 - The Women of Nell Gwynne's (Jul-2009)
2 - Nell Gwynne's Scarlet Spy (Jan-2011)

Novel of the Company

1 - In the Garden of Iden (Feb-1998)
1 - In the Company of Thieves (Nov-2013)
2 - Sky Coyote (Feb-1999)
3 - Mendoza in Hollywood (Feb-2000)
4 - The Graveyard Game (Jan-2001)
5 - The Life of the World to Come (Dec-2004)
6 - The Children of the Company (Nov-2005)
7 - The Machine's Child (Sep-2006)
8 - The Sons of Heaven (Jul-2007)
9 - Not Less Than Gods (Feb-2010)
Black Projects, White Knights (Sep-2002)
The Empress of Mars (Sep-2003)
Gods and Pawns (Feb-2007)
Rude Mechanicals (Apr-2007)

Related Books

1 - The Anvil of the World (Aug-2003)
2 - The House of the Stag (Sep-2008)
3 - The Bird of the River (Jul-2010)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • In the Garden of Iden

    Novel of the Company - 1

    In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves valuable works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal with drugs, hormones, and implants, and trains them to serve the Company down the lo...

  • Sky Coyote

    Novel of the Company - 2

    Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like J...

  • Mendoza in Hollywood

    Novel of the Company - 3

    This is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans fr...

  • The Graveyard Game

    Novel of the Company - 4

    Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he n...

  • Her Father's Eyes

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • Black Projects, White Knights

    Novel of the Company

    This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including "The Queen in Yellow," written exclusively for this compilation. In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secre...

  • The Anvil of the World

    Related Books - 1

    K age Baker's first fantasy novel is the tale of Smith, of the large extend- ed family of Smiths, of the Children of the Sun. They are a race given to blood feuds, and Smith was formerly an extremely successful assassin. Now he has wearied of his wor...

  • The Empress of Mars

    Novel of the Company

    When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC...

  • Mother Aegypt

    A short story collection from Kage Baker, including an original novella set in her ongoing series of The Company, "Mother Aegypt". The Company novels are being released by Tor, and include The Graveyard Game and The Life of the World to Come.Skyhorse...



  • The Life of the World to Come

    Novel of the Company - 5

    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...

  • The Children of the Company

    Novel of the Company - 6

    Take a ride through time with the devil. In the sixth book of the Company series, we meet Executive Facilitator General Labienus. He's used his immortal centuries to plot a complete takeover of the world since he was a young god-figure in Sumeria. In...

  • Dark Mondays

    Kage Baker, celebrated creator of the Company novels and the standout collection Mother Aegypt, now brings together pirates, primates, eldritch horrors, maritime ghosts, and much more in Dark Mondays. This captivating new collection of fantastic sho...

  • The Machine's Child

    Novel of the Company - 7

    Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas,...

  • Gods and Pawns

    Novel of the Company

    In the Company, youre either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. These eight stories, reprinted for the first time, delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec. The...

  • Rude Mechanicals

    Novel of the Company

    The year is 1934, the scene is a Wood Near Athens -- temporarily relocated to the environs of the Hollywood Bowl, as German theater impresario Max Reinhardt attempts to stage his famous production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Fortunate...

  • The Sons of Heaven

    Novel of the Company - 8

    This is the Kage Baker novel everyone has been waiting for: the conclusion to the story of Mendoza and The Company. In The Sons of Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company. The immortal Lewis wakes to find himself bli...

  • The House of the Stag

    Related Books - 2

    Before the Riders came to their remote valley the Yendri led a tranquil pastoral life. When the Riders conquered and enslaved them, only a few escaped to the forests. Rebellion wasn't the Yendri way; they hid, or passively resisted, taking consolatio...

  • Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key

    It's 1672 in Port Royal, Jamaica. John James, London bricklayer's apprentice turned pirate, is returning from the sack of Panama with his share of the loot (a lousy 200 pieces of eight) and a resolve to go back to bricklaying, since piracy pays so ba...

  • I Begyn as I Mean To Go On

    in Fast Ships, Black Sails

    Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- an...



  • The Hotel under the Sand

    Nine-year-old Emma is lost at sea in a terrible storm. She awakens on a desolate island, frightened and lonely. Yet brave, quick-witted Emma will not be alone for long, as the ghost of a bellboy appears with the tragic tale of the Grand Wenlocke. Mor...

  • The Women of Nell Gwynne's

    Nell Gwynne - 1

    Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground esta...

  • Not Less Than Gods

    Novel of the Company - 9

    On a dark evening in 1824, a lady is offered a ride home in the carriage of a dark and mysterious stranger and a boy is conceived, to the strains of Beethoven's brand-new setting to the Ode to Joy. Groomed from childhood to become a perfect British h...

  • The Bird of the River

    Related Books - 3

    In this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their ne...

  • Nell Gwynne's Scarlet Spy

    Nell Gwynne - 2

    Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground esta...

  • The Best of Kage Baker

    Kage Baker's death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she...

  • Mammoth Books presents The Books

    In a time beyond the apocalypse, when the remnants of society are trying to restore life to the way it once was, three young circus children go exploring in the town where the circus is camped. As they wander the empty streets they stumble upon a bui...

  • Nell Gwynne's on Land and at Sea

    The Ladies of Nell Gwynne's are not your run-of-the-mill demi-mondaines. They are refined and educated ladies all, engaged in the more elegant and expensive forms of carnal delight in order to make their way in a hard world. But they also serve the Q...

  • Where the Golden Apples Grow

    Growing up anywhere is hard, but it may be hardest of all on Mars. Bill is twelve Earth years old. He was the third boy born on the red planet. Ford is six Mars years old. He was the second. Alternate ways of tracking time are just one of the differe...

  • In the Company of Thieves

    Novel of the Company - 1

    Do you want a jewel worn by Cleopatra, an original Shakespeare folio, or the combined genes of Socrates and Marilyn Monroe? Dr. Zeus can make your dreams come true. The Company, a powerful corporate entity in the twenty-fourth century, has discovered...



  • Maelstrom and Other Martian Tales

    Mars is an old world, one that has been mapped by science fiction writers for over a century. The late Nebula and Locus Award winning writer Kage Baker was among the most skilled cartographers to render the Red Planet as full of life and love, hope a...

Award-Winning Books by Kage Baker

The Children of the Company
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
The Empress of Mars
2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
The House of the Stag
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kage Baker has published 30 books.

Kage Baker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Maelstrom and Other Martian Tales, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Kage Baker, In the Garden of Iden, was published in February 1998.

Yes. Kage Baker has 3 series.
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