Monthly Archives: August 2011

Kage Baker’s career is not over. This is both interesting and nice in all sorts of way, both for me and for you, Dear Readers. But it … well, it can get in the way, you know? The sequel to … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked to be in control of her environment. That meant an exceedingly – sometimes excessively – detailed attention to home deco. Her desk, the table by her armchair, the wall art – all was designed to hold or … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a funny lady. She was witty, she was a marvelous raconteuse, she could write wonderfully funny stories. Partly it was due to her skills as a writer, and because she saw the absurd comic potentialities in the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was, as is well-known, very fond of rum. And she was very fond of pirates. Her favourite pirate was Captain Sir Henry Morgan, in that he was one of the few really, really successful pirates – died knighted, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker distrusted the great organizations being born in recent years on the Internet. She said part of the problem was the speed at which things lived and aged in the aether. Hence her theory that AI’s and algorhythms were … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, like all writers of fiction, lived in several worlds. Some were simultaneous, some were sequential; some were even consanguineous. Whether any of them was actually the ordinarily-agreed-upon “real” world, I have never been sure. Nor confident of it … Continue reading →

Kage Baker‘s entire Company series has been nominated to NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Titles. Now the voting has begun. If you would like to express an opinion, please go to: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138894873/vote-for-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-titles Cast a vote! Be heard! Kage’s work is … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was an avid, fervent, dedicated James Bond admirer. She first encountered the amazing Mr. Bond at the double feature of Thunderball and Help!, which seemed to play all summer long in 1965. Kage went because she loved the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had an attention span of roughly eternity. For things that personally interested her, anyway. She would conscientiously complete research on topics that were assignments – for instance, if she felt she had to research, say, piano key felting … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the annual recurrance of The Silly Season. She said it was a goldmine of ideas for a writer, and a treasure trove of entertainment for anyone who cared to examine it. She watched eagerly each year for … Continue reading →