Sky Coyote (Company, #2)

by Kage Baker

Facilitator Joseph has outlasted entire civilizations during his twenty-thousand years of service to Dr. Zeus, the twenty-fourth century Company that created immortal operatives like him to preserve history and culture. The year is 1699 and Joseph is now in Alta California, to imitate an ancient Native-American Coyote god, and save the native Chumash from the white Europeans. He has the help of the Botanist Mendoza, who hasn't got over the death of her lover Nicholas, in Elizabethan England.

• ISBN10: 0765317486
• ISBN13: 9780765317483
• Publish Date: 27 November 2007 (first published 1 February 1999)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 22 June 2011
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Tor Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

While I really liked the first book in Kage Baker's Company series, I thought this sequel was merely "cute" - I was more interested in the mysterious politics of the Company than I was in the endless scenes with the Native American tribe that Joseph and his fellow immortals were trying to preserve. Sky Coyote was much sillier in tone than In The Garden of Iden was; lots of unanswered questions about who was running the Company and to what end were posed, but most of the pages were spent discussing the coyote god's penis and the not-as-humorous-as-was-intended modern ways of the Chumash tribe.

Most reviews I've read, luckily, have said the rest of the series is better than this low point, so I'm looking forward to reading book #3, which I just picked up from the library.