In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker Rescued from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition, feisty little Mendoza is enrolled in a special school and becomes a cyborg agent of The Company, a group of immortal merchants and scientists who travel backwards in time in order to make money for The Company and to […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Not Less Than Gods by Kage Baker Your reaction to the announcement of Not Less Than Gods by consistently excellent SF and fantasy author Kage Baker will probably depend to a large extent on how familiar you are with her The Company series. If you haven’t read any of the Company novels or collections, the […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Terry Weyna´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker I love pretty much everything that Kage Baker wrote — her concise to-the-point style, the ironic way she looks at the world, and her wry subtle sense of humor suits me perfectly, more so than any other author I know save Jack Vance. I’m sure that if I’d ever met […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | Audio, Free! | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker Crack open the pages of The Women of Nell Gwynne’s and you will find action, mystery, and beautiful women. This novella by Kage Baker is everything a SF/F fan wishes the works of Charles Dickens had been. The Women of Nell Gwynne’s is about an elite brothel […]
Read MoreJohn Ottinger (guest)´s rating: 5 | Kage Baker | Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Nell Gwynne’s On Land and At Sea by Kage Baker The “ladies” of Nell Gwynne’s work hard for their money, providing elite custom “services” to the important men who run England. These men think Nell Gwynne’s girls are very good at what they do, but they have no idea what’s really going on inside those […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker The first thing that should be noted about Kage Baker’s The Anvil of the World is that though it focuses on a very small group of characters and one main character throughout and follows them chronologically, this isn’t really a novel. Unless it’s one with some major […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Kage Baker | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Mother Aegypt and Other Stories by Kage Baker When Kage Baker died from cancer earlier this year, I was regretful that I had never gotten around to reading any of her work. I had always heard good things about her writing, both from friends and from other writers, and had seen she had been nominated for […]
Read MoreGuest´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker Kage Baker’s The House of the Stag is a stand-alone novel set in the same world as The Anvil of the World and The Bird of the River. In this story, the pacifist Yendri tribe has been enslaved by cruel invaders, and the half-demon foundling named Gard […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Kage Baker | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker Kage Baker left us on January 31, 2010, at the much-too-young age of 57. Those of us who read and loved her Company novels and short stories, beginning with In the Garden of Iden, will miss her more than we can collectively say — though many of […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Bird of the River by Kage Baker Eliss is a teenage girl living an itinerant life with her drug-addicted mother and young brother. Her mother, formerly a successful diver, now has trouble keeping a job because her drug habit has damaged her lungs, but she’s given a chance on the Bird of the River, […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Kage Baker | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker The more I read Kage Baker, the more I love Kage Baker. Of the hundreds of speculative fiction authors I’ve read, I rank Kage Baker in the top ten. Maybe top five. She’s that amazing. I love her clever imagination and her style which is unembellished, straightforward, […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Kage Baker | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 8 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. The Bohemian Astrobleme by Kage Baker (2010, free at Subterranean Press, also included in Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy) The Bohemian Astrobleme is an entertaining Victorian […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones | Kage Baker, Sarah Pinsker | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Sharing our finds in free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. “The Likely Lad” by Kage Baker (2002, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Starship Sofa podcast #23) Kage Baker is one of my favorite authors. I love her sense of humor and sardonic voice. She’s at it again in “The Likely Lad,” a funny novelette that you can […]
Read MoreKat Hooper, Tadiana Jones and Marion Deeds | Kage Baker, Ken Liu, Peter Watts | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about. “The Faerie Tree” by Kathleen Kayembe (Nov. 2017, free at Lightspeed, $3.99 Kindle magazine issue) Marianne’s family is in turmoil. Her sister, who always had such plans for her life, […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | Kage Baker, Kij Johnson, Rachel Swirsky | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 10 comments |
Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer I was never a big fan of pirates (ninjas, on the other hand…) but nonetheless, the very word evokes adventure and the high seas. Fast Ships, Black Sails doesn’t really stray far from that expectation and delivers eighteen stories marked with action, treachery, and a sense of […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Carrie Vaughn, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Jeff VanderMeer, Kage Baker, Michael Moorcock, Naomi Novik, Sarah Monette | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance is the best anthology I’ve ever read. These stories will be enjoyed by any SFF reader, but they’ll be ten times more fun if you’ve […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Dan Simmons, Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Moon, Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, Glen Cook, Jack Vance, Jeff VanderMeer, John C. Wright, Kage Baker, Liz Williams, Matthew Hughes, Mike Resnick, Neil Gaiman, Paula Volsky, Phyllis Eisenstein, Tad Williams, Tanith Lee, Walter Jon Williams | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Book of Dreams edited by Nick Gevers The Book of Dreams is a small but satisfying collection of short stories that are thematically, albeit loosely, connected by the theme of “dreams.” The book features original stories by Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard, Jay Lake, Kage Baker and Jeffrey Ford, and was edited by Nick Gevers […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 3.5 | Jay Lake, Jeffrey Ford, Kage Baker, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Sympathy for the Devil edited by Tim Pratt Please allow me to introduce Sympathy for the Devil, a fine new anthology filled entirely with short stories about the devil… who is, as we all know, a man of style and taste. However, you won’t just find the smooth-talking stealer of souls here. In addition to […]
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The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 edited by Kevin J. Anderson The Nebula Awards are one of the great institutions in science fiction and fantasy. Each year since 1965, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have voted for the Best Novel, Novella (40,000-17,500 words), Novelette (17,500-7,500 words), and Short Story […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Amal El-Mohtar, Connie Willis, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, Kevin J. Anderson, Kij Johnson, Michael Bishop, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Richard Bowes, Saladin Ahmed, Will McIntosh | Nebula Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell Twenty-First Century Science Fiction is packed full of excellent science fiction stories. I’ve been reading anthologies lately, partly to improve my own short story writing, and this is the best I’ve found so far. It contains stories by authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Catherynne […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan´s rating: 5 | Brenda Cooper, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, Elizabeth Bear, Genevieve Valentine, James L. Cambias, Jo Walton, John Scalzi, Kage Baker, Karl Schroeder, Liz Williams, Madeline Ashby, Mary Robinette Kowal, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Tobias Buckell, Yoon Ha Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
We’re sad to announce the death of Kage Baker who died of cancer this morning. Ms. Baker is a favorite at FanLit (read some of our reviews of her fantasy and science fiction novels here). Here’s the the SFWA obituary.
Read MoreFanLit | Kage Baker | World Wide Wednesday | | 1 comment |
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