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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.

Conjunctions and Configurations

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker read her horoscope every day. That’s because, she said, it was right there on the L A Times funny pages with the other daily nonsense. Had she had to search for it, I doubt she would have bothered. … Continue reading →

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The Season of Winding Up (And Down)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker called this last week before Christmas the home stretch – as, indeed, most people probably do. Except those of us who have been reduced to drooling babbling by this point … However, despite the very real and huge … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow – The Tree

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker had a method for getting through the holidays without losing her mind. She did everything on a strict schedule; many portions of the holidays were things she always did, always the same way – they settled obediently into … Continue reading →

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Saturday Night, Alas

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker loved Saturday nights. Not because she was mad party girl, revving up to bar-hop half the night; not because she liked to go out and dance. For her, they were a big King’s X in time. What she … Continue reading →

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Coming Back To Life; Or, An Abrupt Change of Subject

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker had a peculiar conviction that the Bible – Testaments Old and New – was full of zombie stories. This is no way interfered with her religious faith. Kage considered herself a Christian, probably a Catholic; but also a … Continue reading →

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December 10, 2020

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker liked this time of the Christmas season; it was peaceful, she said, between the first burst of decorating and the mad whirl of Christmas Eve and The Day Itself. Right now, she could sit at her desk in … Continue reading →

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Taking Inspiration From the Caddis Fly

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Kate

KAGE BAKER admired the constructions of caddis fly pupae. Not the bugs themselves, mind you, though they are fairly inoffensive insects with long gauzy wings. Not the actual larvae, either, which are fairly offensive little wormies that live their entire … Continue reading →

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Day 4 of November 2nd

Posted on November 6, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker was a serious and dedicated voter. She read up on issues, always voted; and the day after the November elections, she resumed her life with a reading of all the new laws over a breakfast of left-over Halloween … Continue reading →

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Once More Out of the Breach, My Friends

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker firmly believed that if something happened once, odds were high it would happen again. And the weirder the occurrence, the more likely it would be to repeat. Never mind waiting for “third time is enemy action” for Kage: … Continue reading →

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The Golden Apples of the Sun

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Kate

Kage Baker loved apples, and apple trees, and the sight of a field of blossom-thick  boughs in a spring orchard. But it was  the autumn season she loved best, when the aisles and aisles of apples came ripe, and could … Continue reading →

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