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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 →

Kage Baker advocated pizza as the meal of choice for Lammas: which today, August 1st, is generally accepted to be. Happy and profitable Lammas to all of you! Pizza was the closest Kage could come up with for a sun-wheel … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was big on lists. She loved the idea – both philosophical and neurological – of “permanent portable memory.” That’s often put forward as one the real paradigms of human advancement, the concept of maintaining memories outside of our … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the internet for the opportunity it gave her to talk to people on her own terms. She didn’t blog, because she didn’t feel she had the time – but she answered every email she received, she participated … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was always amused and mystified by what it turned out her audiences liked. She seldom saw it coming, and in fact considered her own judgement as to what would be a crowd-pleaser to be inexplicably poor. The letters … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was generally pretty scornful of American attempts at philosophers and metaphysicians. Thoreau, Emerson, Kerouac, Whitman … she found them all rather puerile and just a little too fraternity-minded. Being of both an historical and intellectual bent, she read … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had, for most of her life, a quiet sort of background faith that things would work out all right. She didn’t fret about enormous problems too much; she tried to keep her worrying down to a level where … Continue reading →