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Nothing But Flowers

In The Garden of Iden  (Company, volume 1)

By Kage Baker  

19 Jun, 2025

The End of History

12 comments

1997’s In The Garden of Iden is the first volume in Kage Baker’s Company series.

Dr. Zeus, Inc (also known as the Company) is perhaps the greatest benefactor the human race has ever known… or at least it is the greatest benefactor the Company has ever known. The Company owes its success to two discoveries: time travel and immortality.

Thanks to the first, 16th century Spaniard Mendoza was a beneficiary of the second.


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Unto My Lot

Spec-Lit, # 1

 Edited by Phyllis Eisenstein 

2 Jul, 2024

The End of History

5 comments

The ISFDB says that Phyllis Eisenstein’s 1997 Spec-Lit is the first of two Spec-Lit anthologies. I’d argue they are closer to magazines. I base this on vibes and also because the copyright says, This magazine is copyright © 1997 by Phyllis Eisenstein.” The two Spec-Lit books/magazines are, as far as I know, the only examples of Eisenstein’s editorial work.

But first! Background.

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Some Forgotten Dream

Tehanu  (Earthsea, volume 4)

By Ursula K. Le Guin  

27 Jun, 2024

The End of History

13 comments

1990’s Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea is the fourth of at least six volumes in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea secondary-universe fantasy series.

As a young woman, Tenar was a priestess to the Nameless Ones. She chose to flee. Tenar was offered a place in cosmopolitan1 Havnor. She chose backwater island Gont instead. Adopted by the old mage Ogion, Tenar was offered a chance to learn magic. She chose to marry a farmer named Flint instead2.

Tenar did not choose to become a widow living alone. Time chose that for her.

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In It To Win It

The Spiral Dance

By R. Garcia y Robertson  

21 Mar, 2024

The End of History

8 comments

R. Garcia y Robertson’s 1991 The Spiral Dance is a stand-alone historical fantasy.

Outraged by Tudor excess, Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland and her vacillating husband Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl, launch what will be later known as the Northern Rebellion. Leading a rabble comprised of a poorly organized cross-section of the ungovernable north, the aristocratic couple march south to replace hateful Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots. A great victory is assured!

But first, there’s the matter of the mad woman claiming to be Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland.


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Deep Blue Sea

Reefsong

By Carol Severance  

28 Dec, 2023

The End of History

4 comments

Carol Severance’s 1991 Reefsong is a stand-alone science fiction novel. 

Although her family has long since been driven off the mountain land they love by the nigh all-powerful World Life Corporation, UN Warden Angie Dinsman still labors to keep one of the last remaining wildernesses on Earth intact. She has no intention of ever leaving.

Wildfire and the World Life Corporation costs Angie her precious post.

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