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I am Kage Baker's sister. Kage was/is a well-known science fiction writer, who died on January 31, 2010. She told me to keep her work going - I'm doing that. This blog will document the process.

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Posted on May 12, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker had a keen appreciation of the ways social media enhanced communication. You could easily corner a vast audience without ever having to hire a hall, or find someone to make decent cookies and vol au vent pastries. You … Continue reading →

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Soft Spring Evening In A Hard Time

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker kept a sharp, albeit distant, eye on the world. Writers have to, unless they are solely writing fan fiction or some niche genre completely unrelated to human behaviour. Pony parties, maybe. Illustrative parables concerning drywall. The history of … Continue reading →

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Hath not an Aspie hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker had Asperger’s Syndrome. She was what is usually called “high-functioning”, a label that incensed her. It was her opinion that she was always high-functioning, no matter what she was – and for the rest of the world to … Continue reading →

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Joys and Perils of Eating the Past

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker was an avid historian. She was also a good cook. At the intersection of these two passions were the period recipes she liked to recreate and serve t0 her friends. The main goals were curiosity and attention to … Continue reading →

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Pupae

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker always said she could feel her blood thinning in the Spring, thickening in the Fall. I always said that was nice poetry but lousy biology; but as Kage also believed for most of her life that raw potatoes … Continue reading →

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I Screaming Out Loud All The Time I Write

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker thought the description of the Squeers family, in Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickelby, was about the funniest family ever committed to paper. They are a sort of ghastly, but affectionate, ogre family who run an appalling boys’ school wherein … Continue reading →

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Off Weekend

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker rests in the Garden of Sleep, Drake is in his hammock and a thousand miles away, and I have some sort of gastritis. We are taking the weekend off. See you all tomorrow.    

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January 11th, Mark I (Maybe)

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker enjoyed her modern technology, and depended heavily on it for her work and her play. Being Kage, however, she also expected it to betray her, eventually. She didn’t really trust technology, at least of the sort that did not … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Athena Ergane

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker was a proud working woman. She honored Athena Ergane, which was Athena in her aspect of the patroness of workers and artisans. Kage dedicated one of her books to Athena Ergane, though right at the moment, I shamefully cannot … Continue reading →

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Obsession

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Kate

Kage Baker would have shaken her head at me sadly. “Screwed that up, didn’t you? Where’d your mind go?” Last night, Dear Readers, I completely forgot to write a blog post. The thought never entered my mind, until Kimberly asked me … Continue reading →

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