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Kage Baker was much interested by time. She studied it, she speculated on it, she wrote stories about it in (I think) an attempt to corner it with sympathetic magic. She used all the resources at her command to maintain … Continue reading →

Kage Baker’s last novel set in in the Anvil universe was The Bird of the River. It was composed three or four years before she wrote it, in the the bar of a nice hotel where we were spending the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker admired those possessed of the barbecuing gene.She didn’t have it. Neither do I. We owned a grille, but it was usually used for rituals or experiments that required an open fire. They rarely involved dinner. We both liked … Continue reading →

Kage Baker pretty much agreed with that old axiom – that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. You can’t really deny that many and many a catastrophe has struck as a direct result of someone trying to … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a firm proponent of the phrase “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” Nor was she a soft practitioner, one of those people who endeavours to make pleasant small talk when inside they … 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 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 →