Not Less than Gods
A Company Extended Universe Novel
Will be published approx. on 16. June 2026
300 pages
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978-1-64506-144-1 (ISBN)
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?[Baker's] a fine prose stylist with a skeptical intelligence and a black sense of humor.? ?The Los Angeles Times Book Review
?Baker's Company novels are a monumental achievement of imagination and whimsy.? ?Starlog
Edward Alton-Bell Fairfax seems to be the perfect Victorian hero. The mysterious circumstances of his birth lead to his rise through public school and a career in the British navy before his recruitment by the Gentlemen's Speculative Society, a secret fraternity pulling the strings of governments and individuals alike to bring about a scientifically-driven Utopia. Edward is trained as a spy for the Society, and joins a group of the GSS's special agents on a journey through nineteenth-century Europe and the Middle East, armed with savoir faire, banter?and the GSS's special gadgets. A James Bond for the Victorian era, Edward encounters self-propelled carriages, a galvanic underground train, flying machines, and unsavory characters.
And through all his adventures, he learns that the Society might be connected to an even more shadowy organization. . .
?Baker's Company novels are a monumental achievement of imagination and whimsy.? ?Starlog
Edward Alton-Bell Fairfax seems to be the perfect Victorian hero. The mysterious circumstances of his birth lead to his rise through public school and a career in the British navy before his recruitment by the Gentlemen's Speculative Society, a secret fraternity pulling the strings of governments and individuals alike to bring about a scientifically-driven Utopia. Edward is trained as a spy for the Society, and joins a group of the GSS's special agents on a journey through nineteenth-century Europe and the Middle East, armed with savoir faire, banter?and the GSS's special gadgets. A James Bond for the Victorian era, Edward encounters self-propelled carriages, a galvanic underground train, flying machines, and unsavory characters.
And through all his adventures, he learns that the Society might be connected to an even more shadowy organization. . .
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Kage Baker was an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and taught Elizabethan English as a second language. She is best known for the Company books featuring historical time-travel science fiction. Her books and stories were nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and won a Nebula and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she died on January 31, 2010.
