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Kage Baker commented once,  “The world ends for someone every day.” A lot of her Company series was based on that observation, and all the sorrow that arises from it. Also, its corollary – that worlds are saved every day, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, as I have often said, left me notes. Some of them are little snapshots of shopping trips 20 years old, her neat calligraphied script detailing old menus and sudden cravings – oh, God, that summer where we compulsively … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was not frightened of very much. Really. She was shy and reserved and suspicious: but she just wasn’t scared of much. She disliked crowds and strangers, refused to answer the phone at home, would avoid any business where … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked fog. Some of that may have been her maritime inclination – staying as close to the ocean as she could get all her life, she encountered a lot of fog.  But there is fog, and then there … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a conniseuse of irony. She firmly believed that Fate kept a close eye on opportunities to flip one off with some little ironic twist, and took advantage of as many as possible. She knew, in her hearts … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the Coloured Fairy Tale books. We all did. Those venerable collections by Andrew Lang were one of the great delights of childhood; we all went through all of them with great absorption and pleasure. They remained favourites, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker wanted a Kindle during her last year. But she hated being an unpaid beta tester, so she watched and queried our several friends who essayed the leap in to ebooks. collecting data and making up her mind. That … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a naturally abstemious person. She rarely over-indulged, at least in physical pleasures; she had a disciplined and measured approach to most appetites, deliberately setting aside treats to be enjoyed later at a carefully pre-calculated pace. I’m not … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved tropical weather. She loved it especially when it began to threaten storms – heat, and a touch of humidity; thunderheads evolving above the mountains like djinni just released from their bottles. A hint of weird green glass … Continue reading →

Kage Baker regarded California as The Edge of the West. The reason is fairly obvious; head far enough west in California (at one point in our lives, maybe two blocks …) and you completely run out of continent. End of … Continue reading →