Kage Baker Books in Order

Rescued from the Spanish Inquisition and remade into an immortal botanist, Mendoza begins her Company career in Elizabethan England. Her assignment is simple until love makes the past feel more dangerous than any official mission.

Joseph has played many roles for the Company, but now he must pose as a god to save a Chumash village. The job brings conflicting loyalties, religious tension, and growing doubts about what Dr. Zeus is really preserving.

A compact Company tale that starts with personal feeling and widens into something much stranger. Baker uses time travel here in a quieter, sadder way, while still keeping one eye on the machinery of the larger saga.

Sent to drought-stricken California in 1862, Mendoza expects a quiet botanical mission. Instead she meets a man who looks exactly like her lost lover, and time anomalies, Company politics, and heartbreak quickly close in.

Joseph and Lewis start looking for the missing Mendoza and uncover far more than one disappearance. Their search exposes buried Company secrets, vanished operatives, and the first clear signs that the Silence of 2355 is coming.

This Company collection moves from Cro-Magnon valleys to archaeological digs and Depression-era California. Mendoza, Joseph, Alec, and other operatives fill in the shadows around Dr. Zeus, one risky assignment at a time.

Smith, a famously capable assassin, wants nothing more than a quiet retirement. Then he takes charge of a caravan to the coast and finds murder, magic, and the very troublesome friendship of young Lord Ermenwyr.

This collection mixes Company fiction with standalone speculative tales, including the title novella *Mother Aegypt*. It is a good place to see Baker moving between eerie California stories, history, and stranger ideas.

Punished by exile to the deep past, Mendoza spends millennia alone until a timeship crashes into her life. Its pilot, Alec Checkerfield, becomes the key to rebellion, identity, and one more dangerous clash with the Company.

This installment follows the ambitious immortal Labienus across centuries of Company history. His schemes, from ancient Sumeria to more recent disasters, reveal how much rot has been hiding inside Dr. Zeus all along.

Baker gathers ghostly, maritime, and weird short fiction here, from pirate adventures to small-town uncanny tales. It shows off her range outside the longer series, while keeping the wit and menace that mark her best work.

Mendoza has vanished again, and Alec Checkerfield is desperate to find her. His rescue mission turns especially strange when past versions of his own dead selves join him, forcing everyone to confront the truth behind their creation.

This Company-world novella blends historical intrigue with older myths and long memory. It carries Baker's familiar mix of danger, sly humor, and the uneasy sense that the past never stays as manageable as the Company hopes.

Another Company story collection, this one adds more hidden corners to the larger saga. Immortals, experiments, schemes, and collateral damage pile up across centuries, showing how many ordinary lives the Company's long games disturb.

This Company novella leans into Baker's love of theater, mixing literary preservation, backstage scheming, and sharp historical detail. It works as both a side trip in the saga and a neat showcase for her wit.

As July 8, 2355 draws near, the Company's long-feared Silence is finally about to arrive. Mendoza, Joseph, Edward, and others scramble through shifting plots and old loyalties toward a future none of them can predict.

John James wants to leave piracy behind and live respectably, but a dead shipmate's letter ruins that plan. One hidden fortune leads to sea chases, sharks, betrayal, and a woman who may know much more than she admits.

Gard, a half-demon outcast, wages a furious private war after invaders destroy the life he knows. Captivity, magic, and ambition remake him into something far more dangerous, and far more complicated, than a simple avenger.

Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax looks like the ideal Victorian gentleman, but the Gentlemen's Speculative Society recruits him for something far stranger. Secret training, experimental machines, and international intrigue slowly reveal a much bigger game.

Mary Griffith is stranded on a barely terraformed Mars after the company that employed her pulls out. She opens the planet's only bar, and when outside pressure mounts, her band of misfits has to defend the colony.

Nine-year-old Emma survives a terrible storm and washes up on a lonely island. There she finds the ghost of a bellboy and a buried Victorian hotel powered by a marvelous machine that has held time almost still.

Lady Beatrice's fall from respectability lands her at Nell Gwynne's, an exclusive brothel that doubles as a spy network. When a Society agent vanishes, she and the other women have to uncover what powerful men are hiding.

This volume pairs Lady Beatrice's first covert adventure with an extra Nell Gwynne tale. Victorian espionage, a secretive society, and a strange red stone make it a sly, fast-moving entry point to Baker's steampunk world.

After their troubled mother dies, Eliss and her younger half-breed brother join the crew of a huge river barge. Pirate attacks, missing remains, and a quiet assassin aboard turn their new home into the center of a larger mystery.

Not fiction but film writing, this volume gathers Baker's pieces on silent cinema. She writes about forgotten spectacles, beautiful train wrecks, and early screen history with the same sharp, funny voice found in her novels.

The women of Nell Gwynne's head to the seaside for a holiday and promptly lose any chance of a quiet break. A suspicious guest, dead servants, and sea monsters force Lady Beatrice and her allies back into action.

This big retrospective collects twenty stories and novellas from across Baker's career. Company adventures sit beside horror-tinged pieces, Hollywood oddities, and standalone fantasies, making it an excellent one-volume sampler.

A brief post-apocalyptic piece about what survives after catastrophe, and why stories still matter when civilization has narrowed to almost nothing. It is one of Baker's quieter works, but the idea lingers.

This posthumous collection gathers shorter fiction set in and around Baker's Company universe. Expect stolen treasures, backstage chaos, strange missions, and several sideways looks at how messy history becomes when immortals start meddling.

This Mars collection returns to Baker's rough, half-settled frontier, where survival depends on stubbornness and community. Expect colony politics, hard lives, and the offbeat humanity that makes her Martian stories memorable.

A retired pirate hoping for honest work is tempted into one last treasure hunt by a dangerous, resourceful woman. Storms, shipwrecks, double-crosses, and ghostly unease turn the voyage into a brisk historical adventure.