Sky Coyote is a science fiction novel by American writer Kage Baker.

American illustrator Michael Koelsch painted the cover art of Baker's first three novels in The Company series, including Sky Coyote.

[1] The preceding novel, In The Garden of Iden, introduced the Botanist Mendoza, from her time of recruitment in the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition to her love affair with a mortal in Tudor England, followed by her being sent to base New World One in the Americas.

Joseph's latest role is that of Sky Coyote, the trickster, the foolish one, the animal god of many Native American traditions.

He assembles a small army of his kind, including the erratic and moody botanist Mendoza, whom he occasionally regrets recruiting in 16th-century Spain; the anthropologist and former Babylonian Imarte; who is not averse to bedding her subjects to get more data; and many other specialists.

He's also wearing a lot of non-standard equipment to turn him into a cavorting, fast talking (and priapic) god.

They are disgusted that the cyborgs eat meat, drink alcohol and consume other stimulants banned in their era.

The Chumash go to their reward, the Company gets all the valuable information and samples it needs to sell to the rich and not-so-smart in the 24th century, and Joseph is left with a nagging doubt.