Rude Mechanicals
By Kage Baker
Illustrated by J.K. Potter
Limited: (sold out)
Unsigned 2nd trade hardcover: (sold out)
Lettered: $150
ISBN 1-59606-087-5
A new illustrated Company novella!
The year is 1934, the scene is a Wood
Near Athens -- temporarily relocated to the environs of the Hollywood Bowl, as German
theater impresario Max Reinhardt attempts to stage his famous production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Fortunately for Reinhardt, he has immortal
assistance in the person of Literature Specialist Lewis, a cyborg working undercover for Dr. Zeus Incorporated, masters of time travel. Lewis is tasked
with preserving Reinhardt’s promptbooks for future Company profits at auction.
Unfortunately for Reinhardt, there
are complications…
For Joseph, Lewis’s fellow cyborg, is on the case as well, attempting to salvage a botched
mission of his own. It involves the lost treasure of the Cahuenga Pass, a missing diamond, a third-century pope, burglary, disguises, car chases,
and a legendary Hollywood party spot. All of which interact, more or less disastrously,
with Lewis’s mission and Reinhardt’s Shakespearean extravaganza. Will the show go
on?
Limited: 1500 signed hardcover copies
Lettered: 26 signed copies,
housed in a custom traycase
From Bookslut:
"Rude Mechanicals takes place in Hollywood in 1934, and is from start to finish one of those excellent screwball comedy romps that I am unashamedly fond of. If you exchanged the cyborgs Lewis and Joseph for Myrna Loy and William Powell in any one of the Thin Man movies, you would have a version of Rude Mechanicals that fits on AMC any night of the week."
