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Kage Baker (1952–2010)

Author of In the Garden of Iden

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Kage Baker was born in Hollywood, California on June 10, 1952. Her first novel, In the Garden of Iden, was published in 1997. She was a science fiction and fantasy writer, who was best known for The Company series. Her other works included Mendoza in Hollywood (2000), House of the Stag (2009), and the short story Caverns of Mystery (2009). The Empress of Mars (2003) won the Theodore Sturgeon Award. She died from uterine cancer on January 31, 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from In the Garden of Iden… (more)
In the Garden of Iden 1,699 copies, 57 reviews
Sky Coyote 890 copies, 28 reviews
The Anvil of the World 792 copies, 30 reviews
Mendoza in Hollywood 766 copies, 23 reviews
The Life of the World to Come 731 copies, 23 reviews
The Graveyard Game 651 copies, 26 reviews
The Children of the Company 574 copies, 16 reviews
The Machine's Child 543 copies, 16 reviews
The Sons of Heaven 472 copies, 21 reviews
The Empress of Mars 395 copies, 18 reviews
Gods and Pawns 388 copies, 10 reviews
The House of the Stag 282 copies, 16 reviews
Not Less Than Gods 248 copies, 18 reviews
Mother Aegypt and Other Stories 243 copies, 3 reviews
The Bird of the River 201 copies, 11 reviews
The Hotel Under the Sand 199 copies, 12 reviews
Rude Mechanicals 192 copies, 8 reviews
The Women of Nell Gwynne's 191 copies, 12 reviews
Dark Mondays 148 copies, 4 reviews
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key 116 copies, 6 reviews
Scarlet Spy 108 copies, 3 reviews
The Best of Kage Baker 107 copies, 2 reviews
In the Company of Thieves 103 copies, 7 reviews
On Land and at Sea 77 copies, 3 reviews
The Empress of Mars {novella} 75 copies, 4 reviews
On Company Time 70 copies
In Bad Company 54 copies, 1 review
Company Men 49 copies, 1 review
The Angel in the Darkness 32 copies, 2 reviews
The Company They Keep 31 copies, 1 review
The Books 20 copies
Where the Golden Apples Grow 14 copies, 1 review
The Fourth Branch 7 copies, 1 review
The Literary Agent 7 copies, 1 review
Maelstrom 6 copies, 1 review
Plotters and Shooters 6 copies, 1 review
The Catch 4 copies
Smart Alec 4 copies
The Queen in the Hill 4 copies, 1 review
The Bohemian Astrobleme 3 copies, 1 review
Monster Story 2 copies
Pareidolia {novelette} 2 copies, 1 review
Old Flat Top 2 copies
Songs of the Dying Earth (Contributor) 611 copies, 12 reviews
The New Space Opera (Contributor) 534 copies, 17 reviews
The Time Traveller's Almanac (Contributor) 534 copies, 13 reviews
Fast Ships, Black Sails (Contributor) 308 copies, 10 reviews
The Book of Cthulhu (Contributor) 289 copies, 6 reviews
Sympathy for the Devil (Contributor) 272 copies, 8 reviews
Year's Best SF 9 (Contributor) 250 copies, 4 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF (Contributor) 234 copies, 6 reviews
Year's Best SF 13 (Contributor) 189 copies, 4 reviews
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Contributor) 176 copies, 6 reviews
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 166 copies, 3 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (Contributor) 160 copies, 5 reviews
Revisions (Contributor) 145 copies, 3 reviews
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (Contributor) 143 copies, 2 reviews
Year's Best Fantasy 3 (Contributor) 133 copies, 2 reviews
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (Contributor) 128 copies, 5 reviews
Year's Best Fantasy 5 (Contributor) 120 copies, 3 reviews
Sideways In Crime (Contributor) 98 copies, 1 review
Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier (Contributor) 95 copies, 2 reviews
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (Contributor) 91 copies, 11 reviews
After the End: Recent Apocalypses (Contributor) 83 copies, 5 reviews
From the Files of the Time Rangers (Introduction, some editions) 72 copies, 4 reviews
Time Travel: Recent Trips (Contributor) 70 copies, 3 reviews
The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 68 copies, 6 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews
New Voices In Science Fiction (Contributor) 63 copies
The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Best Short Novels 2004 (Contributor) 57 copies
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (Author) 57 copies, 2 reviews
Space Opera (Contributor) 53 copies, 2 reviews
Futures Past (Flights) (Contributor) 51 copies
Year's Best Fantasy 8 (Contributor) 46 copies, 1 review
The Book of Dreams (Contributor) 42 copies, 1 review
The Silver Gryphon (Author) 40 copies
Year's Best Fantasy 9 (Contributor) 33 copies
Poe's Lighthouse (Contributor) 28 copies, 2 reviews
Best Short Novels 2007 (Contributor) 25 copies
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (Contributor) 25 copies, 3 reviews
Best American Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
The Book of Silverberg (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 2 (Contributor) 9 copies
Clarkesworld: Issue 138 (March 2018) (Contributor) 7 copies, 1 review
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