Three days later, we discovered her cancer had metastasized to her brain. One she recited in a single long soliloquy in her hospital room it was written that evening, as I doggedly transferred Kage’s voice from my head to paper. As the year wore on, more and more of them were composed ex tempore and dictated to me I think there is a more conversational style in those, as we argued out the reviews. I don’t think that affected her view much-sometimes she was so tired that watching films and composing reviews was all she could manage, so they got her nearly undivided attention. From the foreword:Īll these reviews were written during the last year of Kage’s life. Many of her reviews were collected posthumously into Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen (2011), edited by her sister Kathleen Bartholomew. Kage spent much of the last year of her life watching and reviewing silent films.

On May 15, 2010, that work was awarded the 2009 Nebula Award in the Best Novella category. In 2010, Baker's The Women of Nell Gwynne's was nominated for a Hugo Award and a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novella categories.

She was survived by five younger siblings, mostly located in southern and central California. on January 31, 2010, in Pismo Beach, California. She died from uterine cancer at approximately 1:00 a.m. In January 2010, it was reported that Baker was seriously ill with cancer. In 2009, her short story 'Caverns of Mystery' and her novel House of the Stag were both nominated for World Fantasy Awards, but neither piece won. In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. Other notable works include Mendoza in Hollywood (novel, 2000) and ' The Empress of Mars' (novella, 2003), which won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award. 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. Zeus, Inc.' series of historical time travel science fiction. She is best known for her 'the Company/Dr. Her unusual first name (pronounced like the word cage) is a combination of the names of her two grandmothers, Kate and Genevieve. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language.

Kage Baker (J – Janu) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.īaker was born and raised in Hollywood, California, and lived in Pismo Beach later in life.

In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker