Author Archives: Kate

Kage Baker was a duty-oriented person. She took duty very seriously – especially if it was one you had taken on yourself of your own accord. She gave almost as much weight to  those less-satisfying responsibilities that just  …. attach … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a duty-oriented person. She took duty very seriously – especially if it was one you had taken on yourself of your own accord. She gave almost as much weight to  those less-satisfying responsibilities that just  …. attach … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was born on June 10, 1952. Today she would have been 60. I’m not sure she would have liked that much, either, despite her Beatlemaniacal desire to make at least 64. But if she’d beaten the cancer, she … Continue reading →

Kage Baker would, in the ordinary course of her life, by now be sneaking surreptitious glances at her birthday presents. Which would be in a pile on the mantlepiece or the living room table. If she were still in the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was fascinated by the movie Alien: the first one, the original one. The Ridley Scott on a roll one. She loved the cinemagraphic tricks and techniques in it, she loved the relentless tension and the layered philosophies she … Continue reading →

Kage Baker used to wryly paraphrase that old saw about the weather into Don’t like the world? Invent a new one. Easier said than done, unless you were her. Kage could not only do it – sometimes on a moment’s … Continue reading →

Kage Baker greatly admired Ray Bradbury. William Shakespeare was one of the gods of her idolotry. I think most literate English speakers would class both of them as masters in their respective crafts – Sweet William in world-class plays, and … Continue reading →

Kage Baker never missed an election – never, ever, ever. Four years ago, she trekked through the dark and the rain to make sure my ballot got in as well – it was arguably the most important election in our … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was invited several times to write a blog – and once ordered to, by some cocky little prig – and she always refused. She said it was hard enough to keep up with what she had to do … Continue reading →

Kage Baker didn’t have a formal background in science. Some science fiction writers, do; some do not. What they do have is an interest in ‘What if?” questions; an urgent desire to know the answer to “Why?”  and “How?” It’s … Continue reading →