Short Reviews: Kage Baker

"The Applesauce Monster" [permanent link]. A convoluted tale set in a future where some parents just want a perfect child and do it via DNA manipulation. This results in an uproar, causing them to get a bodyguard. But this bodyguard may be more than just an ordinary bodyguard.
Found in Dec 2001 Asimov's Science Fiction
"Hanuman" [permanent link]. A story set in Baker's Company stories about historians who travel through time, this one has one cyborg who is recovering from a nearly fatal historical trip who meets up with, for all appearances, an intelligent Australopithecus who strikes up a conversation that ultimately leads to background history to why they are they way they are.
Found in Apr 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction
"The Queen in the Hill" [permanent link]. A thoughtful story about a gardener who tends the garden of future group of men who are 'immortals' although the gardener himself is not. He is noticed one day by an immortal while protecting some children, and is given a bride many years later. But as he finds out, the immortals have become much removed from 'normal' humanity and their purposes may not be in accord with what he or his bride wish to do.
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