The first novel of this critically acclaimed series introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. Mendoza, the botanist is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the
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