Black Projects, White Knights

Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers

First edition cover
Author Kage Baker
Cover artist J. K. Potter
Country United States
Language English
Series The Company
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Golden Gryphon Press
Publication date
September 2002
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 288pp
ISBN 1-930846-11-8
OCLC 49225258
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3552.A4313 B55 2002

Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories written by Kage Baker and published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon Press, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which comprises the bulk of her published fiction. Almost all of the stories contained within this volume have been published previously in the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, with the remainder being previously unpublished. Note: not all of the Company stories extant at the time of publishing were collected into this volume.

Contents

The stories in this volume are:

The story "Smart Alec" was later incorporated into the novel The Life of the World to Come.

The story "The Literary Agent" runs counter to other Company stories in that it shows Joseph using a time travel capsule as a routine tool. The basis for much of the backstory is that the time travel technology is too expensive and risky for this.

Notes on story titles

Other notable elements

In "Monster Story", Alec Checkerfield "helps" another boy to answer the test questions, resulting in that boy being committed to a "special" school for those with deviant psychological profiles. In a later story a character, who is apparently that boy grown up, leads the Company's Adonai project, which results in the birth of Alec Checkerfield.

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