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by Kage Baker
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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 9 years ago
Baker uses a real incident as the basis for a screwball story set in Hollywood, featuring Lewis and Joseph. Max Reinhardt is staging A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl, and things get weird.Library copy
altheaann
altheaann rated it 10 years ago
Company men Joseph and Lewis are on assignment in 1940s Hollywood, tasked with finding a legendary lost jewel, the Tavernier Violet. (No, it wasn't really cut into the Hope Diamond.) Against a backdrop of a German director attempting to put on a production of 'A Midsummer's Night's Dream,' the two m...
cindywho
cindywho rated it 14 years ago
This novella was a fun story of Hollywood, A Midsummer Night's Dream and diamond retrieval. The cyborgs Lewis and Joseph figure prominently in other Company novels. I picked up the audio version for free online (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/audio-rude-mechanicals-by-ka...
heidenkind
heidenkind rated it 15 years ago
Thank the tiny baby Jesus it's over.
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it 16 years ago
Joseph and Lewis, immortal cyborgs from the fantastic Company series, have a gleeful romp together through 1930s Hollywood. I would recommend this book if you have already read the full Company series and are jonesing for another fix, but keep your expectations low--it's only 114 pages long and the...
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