Kage Baker

Kage Baker (born June 10, 1952)cite web|url=http://www.kagebaker.com/bio.html/|title=Bio|author=Kage Baker|accessdate=2007-09-26] is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

She was born in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.

She is best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in "Asimov's Science Fiction" in 1997, and her first novel, "In The Garden of Iden", by Hodder & Stoughton in the same year. Other notable works include "Mendoza in Hollywood" (novel, 2000) and "The Empress of Mars" (novella, 2003), which was nominated for a Hugo Award.

Her unusual first name (pronounced like the word "cage") is a combination of the names of her two grandmothers, Kate and Genevieve.

In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University [http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/sciencefiction.cfm] .

Bibliography

=Novels of The Company=

*"In The Garden of Iden" (1997)
*"Sky Coyote" (1999)
*"Mendoza in Hollywood" (2000)
*"The Graveyard Game" (2001)
*"The Life of the World to Come" (2004)
*"The Children of the Company" (2005)
*"The Machine's Child" (2006)
*"The Sons of Heaven" (2007)

Company story collections

*"" (2002)
*"Gods and Pawns" (2007)

tandalone Company novellas

*"The Angel in the Darkness" (limited edition chapbook, 2003)
*"Rude Mechanicals" (limited edition chapbook, 2007)

Other works

*"Anvil of the World" (2003)
*"Mother Ægypt and Other Stories" (2004)- title story features the Company
*"Dark Mondays" (2006)
*"The House of the Stag" (2008)
*"Where the Golden Apples Grow"

External links

* [http://www.kagebaker.com/ Kage Baker's official homepage] - main page, with bibliography
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* [http://freesfonline.de/authors/baker.html Kage Baker's online fiction] at Free Speculative Fiction Online
* [http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/garden-of-iden.html Review, "In the Garden of Iden"]
* [http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/sky-coyote.html Review, "Sky Coyote"]
* [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/anviloftheworld.htm Review, "The Anvil of the World"]
* [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/baker_interview.html Kage Baker interviewed] by Jeff Vandermeer for Clarkesworld Magazine (March 2007)

References