Black Projects, White Knights : The Company Dossiers

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781930846111
• ISBN10: 1930846118
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press

Summary

Is it possible to interfere with history in a moral way, especially if profit is the primary motivation for doing so? Is it possible to sustain any ethical standards at all when handed what amounts to unlimited power? These and other shadowy questions are raised in this book, the unofficial history of Dr Zeus, Inc -- known to its employees simply as the Company. This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time. Also included are new stories, three previously unpublished, and one, 'The Queen in Yellow' written exclusively for this book. Science-fiction fans will follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents -- once human, now centuries-old time-travelling immortal cyborgs: Botanist Mendoza's search for the rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape in 1844 Spanish-held Santa Barbara, California; Facilitator Joseph's dreamlike solicitation of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879; Marine Salvage Specialist Kalugin's recovering of an invaluable Eugène Delacroix painting from a sunken yacht off the coast of Los Angeles in 1894; and Literature Preservationist Lewis's retrieval of priceless literary artefacts, in 1914 Egypt, from the mummy case of Princess Sit-Hathor-Yunet.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Hounds of Zeus	ix
Noble Mold	3	(20)
Smart Alec	23	(24)
Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin	47	(28)
Old Flat Top	75	(20)
The Dust Enclosed Here	95	(14)
The Literary Agent	109	(18)
Lemuria Will Rise!	127	(18)
The Wreck of the Gladstone	145	(22)
Monster Story	167	(22)
Hanuman	189	(22)
Studio Dick Drowns Near Malibu	211	(14)
The Likely Lad	225	(26)
The Queen in Yellow	251	(26)
The Hotel at Harlan's Landing	277