Baker's "Company" novels chronicle a conspiracy that spans all of human history, in which the mysterious agents of Dr. Zeus Incorporated raid the past of its treasures through the employment of ...

While both played significant roles in the history ... announcement, Dr. Herbert York, director of Defense Research and Engineering, or DDRE, proposed an alternative Nike-Zeus test program.

the attempt by Dr. Zeus Incorporated and its time-traveling members to pillage history for their own designs. With The Machine's Child (Tor; 352 pages; $24.95), she brings her saga another step ...