The Kage Baker novels sounds like what would happen if the Trans-Temporal Agency in Joanna Russ's Alyx stories went corporate. And Mendoza and Joseph like Irene and Ernst from The Two of Them.

I still haven't gotten around to the second and third books of the Dragon Temple Saga -- I ought to, one of these days, if I can surmount the bleak prospect of reading more about Zarq's v. oppressive world.