Kage Baker

Kage Baker ( born June 10, 1952 in Hollywood, California, † January 31, 2010 in Pismo Beach, California ) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

Life

She was born in Hollywood, California and lived most of the time in Pismo Beach. Prior to her time as a writer, she worked in theater and taught Old English forms of speech.

She was known primarily through its cycle "The Company", which consists primarily of historical time travel novels. Her first short stories were published in Asimov 's Science Fiction in 1997, as well as her first novel, "In The Garden of Iden ". She was nominated again for several awards and won for her short novel The Empress of Mars Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award to. After her death, she was subsequently for her short novel The Women of Nell Gwynne 's ( German: The Women of Nell Gwynne ) awarded both the Nebula Award and the Locus Award.

Your first name unusual in English is a combination of the names of her two grandmothers, Kate and Genevieve.

Works

Time Storms - The Company

Novels

  • In the land of immortality, 2001, ISBN 3-453-52350-4, In the Garden of Iden, 1997 ( new edition as The fires of the Inquisition, Heyne, 2008)
  • The shores of the New World, 2008, ISBN 3-453-52351-2, Sky Coyote, 1999
  • The Shadow of War, 2008, ISBN 3-453-52425- X, 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
  • Not Less Than Gods, 2008

Short story collections

  • Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, 2002
  • Gods and Pawns, 2007

Novels outside the main plots

  • The Angel in the Darkness, 2003 ( limited edition chapbook )
  • The Empress of Mars, 2003
  • Rude Mechanicals, 2007 (limited edition chapbook )
  • The Women of Nell Gwynne's, 2010, ISBN 3-867-62074-1, The Women of Nell Gwynne 's, 2009

Anvil -of- the-world cycle

  • The anvil of the Worlds, 2011, ISBN 3-867-62082-2, Anvil of the World, 2003
  • The House of the Stag, 2008
  • The Hotel Under the Sand, 2009
  • The Bird of the River, 2010

Short story collections

  • Kage Baker: Short Stories, Volume 1, 2003
  • Mother Ægypt and Other Stories, 2004
  • Dark Mondays, 2006
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