title: Not Less Than Gods (The Company)
author:  Kage Baker 
description: The ninth Company novel (after 2007's <i>The Sons of Heaven</i>) introduces Edward Bell-Fairfax, a child of mysterious origins who gradually discovers that he's not quite like ordinary people. Born to an unmarried aristocratic mother, raised by distant foster parents, and spirited away to boarding school by the sinister Dr. Nennys, Bell-Fairfax serves an unhappy stint in the military and afterward is inducted into the Company of scientists and spies. Using messages from the future and Charles-Babbage-meets-Maxwell-Smart technologia, Bell-Fairfax travels Europe with his mentor, Ludbridge, attempting to swing the Crimean War in England's favor and learning in the process that achieving utopian goals requires a great deal of dirty work. Plenty of cloak-and-poison-dart action gets the reader through the exhausting Victorian nomenclature (the Aetheric Transmitter, the Ascending Chamber) and discourses on the evils of misused technology. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  BOOKS BY KAGE BAKER
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Anvil of the World_
  
  
  _Dark Mondays_
  
  
  _Mother Aegypt and Other Stories_
  
  
  _The House of the Stag_
  
  
  _The Empress of Mars_
  
  
  _Not Less Than Gods_
  
  
  
  
  
  The Company Series  
    
   _In the Garden of Iden_
  
  
  _Sky Coyote_
  
  
  _Mendoza in Hollywood_
  
  
  _The Graveyard Game_
  
  
  _Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers_
  
  
  _The Life of the World to Come_
  
  
  _The Children of the Company_
  
  
  _The Machine’s Child_
  
  
  _Gods and Pawns_
  
  
  _The Sons of Heaven_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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