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Originally Posted by nemogbr Sky Coyote was interesting in how they portrayed the future humans and how the immortals felt about them. |
If you like that aspect of Baker's Company world, you'll really like "The Graveyard Game". It goes into that aspect of the story quite a bit more. In that respect, you'd probably also like the short story collection, "Black Projects, White Nights". Baker addresses that subject in some of the stories there, as well.
And, dwndrgn, I know exactly what you mean about the stories being straightforward, but complex at the same time. I think that's why I like these books so much. They are an easy read, but every time I read them I catch something else and start to realize that she has really built up a complex, well thought out, world. She's paid attention to history, to anthropology, and to psychology in creating both world and characters.
I think sometimes that it is really funny that I first picked up "In the Garden of Iden" at the library mostly because it looked like a romance novel spiked with a bit of science fiction. I rarely read romance novels, but happened to be in the mood for one that day. And of course, the fact that it seemed to have a time-travel aspect didn't hurt. But, once I got into it, I realized that this was not meant to be "just" a romance novel at all, although it functions pretty well just on that level. Nice, I suppose, when a writer can satisfy several demographic groups at the same time.
