to Come. The story "The Literary Agent" runs counter to other Company stories in that it shows Joseph using a time travel capsule as a routine tool. The basis for much of the backstory is that the time travel technology is too expensive and risky for this. In "Monster Story", Alec Checkerfield "helps" another boy to answer the test questions, resulting in that boy being committed to a "special" school for those with deviant psychological profiles. In a later story a character, who is apparently that boy grown up, leads the Company's "Adonai" project, which results in the birth of Alec Checkerfield. External links Excerpt from the book Short fiction about time travel 2002 short story collections Science fiction short story collections Short story collections by Kage Baker Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction