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Kage Baker  loved the act of writing. She always had, from her first flow-of-consciousness baby scribbles (you know, big loops and zigzags done in private languages and crayon) to her last staccato typing on a wireless keyboard. It’s why she … Continue reading →

Kage Baker used to say she was always ready to be ambushed. By a story idea, is what she meant – she’d found it was possible (but not easy) to just set out and track one down and pounce on … Continue reading →

Kage Baker observed a lot. People-watching was her favourite sport. Being naturally shy, and possessed of the quiet camouflage skills of a doe, she spent a great deal of her time out in public being both invisible and watchful. It’s … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was not a hard science person; not unless you include hands-on disciplines like carpentry or blacksmithing, anyway. Truly complicated and diamond-level hard science tended to dazzle and entertain her: it was a marvel and she could never see … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a determined walker for most of her life. That’s unusual for a native Angelena. Some parts of every stereotype are true, and the unwillingness of Angelenos in general to walk anywhere is a true part of ours. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker did not believe in linear time. The direction of the Arrow of Time was, she firmly averred, a personal interpretation of events. That was a view she held long before she began to write time travel stories, and … Continue reading →

Kage Baker held, as one of her core philosophies, the venerable axiom: What goes around, comes around. She felt it covered all the moral contingencies of behaviour: obligation, reward, the powers of good and evil. Not to mention the stern, … Continue reading →