Kage Baker - in good Company

Kage Baker has died. Kage was a fantastic author, whose Company novels seemed to have been written with me in mind, as they were about timetravelling immortal cyborgs. Mannered timetravelling immortal cyborgs no less. The prose flowed like wine, the stories made sense, the characters were well-drawn. If there was a fault in the Company novels it was that they were too well thought out. All the threads came together the way they had to.

Her fantasy works (The Anvil at the Heart of the World, the House of the Stag - though I’ve not yet read the latter) were equally well written, with an obviously well-constructed world.

She had a sense of humour. She had a sense of drama. Probably to do with her background in theatre.

That she died while still so young (not yet 60) is another example of that unfairness that permeates the world.

I intend to produce a tribute story this week. Not a pastiche, but using Bakerian tropes to produce something. It may succeed. It may fail.