"
The Graveyard Game" is the fourth
novel in the "
Company"
series by
science fiction author Kage Baker. The series deals with the lives and adventures of certain operatives of
Dr. Zeus, a
24th Century Company which rescues people from
death, turns them into
immortal cyborgs, and sends them on
time travel missions to restore art and extinct lifeforms.
The
novel is a direct
sequel to "
Mendoza in Hollywood", the third
installment in the
series, but we return to the
point of view of
Joseph,
Mendoza's original recruiter and the main character in the second
novel, "
Sky Coyote". It is hard to say much about the
plot without including massive
spoilers for almost everything else in the series, but suffice it to say that the reader learns much more about the dark secrets of the
Company. The novel is at times
hilarious, but over all this is probably the darkest installment in the series so far.
For the
fans: next up we will get either "
The Life of the World to Come" or "
Children of the Company".
Kage Baker is writing both novels simultaneously and has not decided yet which one will cross the finish line first. Also in the works is a collection of short stories, "
Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers", which will be published by
Golden Gryphon Press in the Summer of 2002. Most of these stories have been published before in
Asimov's.