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About Kate

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.

Revelations On Saturday the 13th

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker loved the cartoon work of Walt Kelly. She loved the way he drew things, and she loved his peculiar sense of humour, and she loved his particular fierce and loving philosophy. One of the things she loved was … Continue reading →

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I Have A Weird Diagnosis!

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker used to complain when I got sick. Not the mere fact of my getting sick – I was healthier than she was by a long shot, until she contracted something fatal.  Kage was actually pretty sympathetic to my … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Habits

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker always felt that an annual resolution to do less of a bad thing was every bit as necessary as resolving to do something virtuous and new. All Kage ever pledged to accomplish was survival, which she reasoned was … Continue reading →

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Interregnum (Let’s Go Out To The Lobby!)

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker had bronchitis or influenza every winter, for years, with a horological accuracy. Some years we couldn’t tell quite what she had – it was over-layered by whatever Plague was making the rounds at Dickens Fair, which she also … Continue reading →

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Blood Music*

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker hated medical tests. She did all she could to avoid any sort, and only bowed to the necessity when she developed a fatal disease. And then she was courageous and magnificently authorly; she described the process of intrauterine … Continue reading →

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Beginning And Meaning To Go On

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Kate

Kage Baker believed firmly in the adage “Begin as you mean to go on”. It’s a popular vow this time of year, of course. I know several people who made that their New Year’s resolution last night. It was certainly … Continue reading →

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“We … belong dead.” (Not As Morbid As It Looks)

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker liked to watch movies on New Year’s Eve. Partly that was because she also liked to stay at home on the Eve; maybe a really good dinner out, but that early and swift. She went to ground as … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker loved Christmas. And for all our many years of devotion to Dickenson Fair and Extreme Christmas – and believe me, the delights and ecstasies are many and enormous – the crown of all the season is Christmas Day with … Continue reading →

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Two-Day Holidays. With Food.

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker never felt that a single day was sufficient for a holiday. She stretched birthdays into celebratory weeks. The run up to Halloween lasted a whole month of steadily increasing lights and Beistle paper decorations and bowls of rehearsal … Continue reading →

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Iatrogenesis

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker was wont to judge throw up her hands on certain days, and consign the entire diurnal period to the trash bin. Not in general, either – specific days were thus tossed on specific faults and flaws, and often … Continue reading →

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