Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 edited by Kevin J. Anderson – review
Where can you go to get the best science fiction and fantasy in any given year? Anywhere that sells the annual Nebula and Hugo anthologies, naturally! This year, the collected nominated Nebula short stories and novelettes are gathered together in a tome called Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, edited by the esteemed and highly talented author [...]
Songs of the Dying Earth, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois – review
The authors of the stories in this anthology all provide an afterward in which they talk about their first encounter with a piece of Jack Vance’s writing and how that piece of writing influenced their careers and inspired them. It seems only fitting that I add my own first encounter with Jack Vance. I know [...]
Kage Baker Battling Cancer
As announced at Tor.com and elsewhere, Kage Baker, author of various works of fantasy and science fiction, including The Company series, is in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy for cancer. Her health is extremely precarious. There is hope that this new treatment regimen will be effective, but it will be a couple weeks before the doctors will have an idea as to whether she will survive.
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Book Review – The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
This book has all of the hallmarks of an epic fantasy without having the usual cumbersome heft usually implied in the subgenre. The House of the Stag reads more like a myth or a fairy tale that has been updated into modern English . . .
Short Fiction Round Table: The Ruby Incomparable by Kage Baker
Short Fiction Round Table: Best American Fantasy 2008
The Ruby Incomparable by Kage Baker
Book Review – The House of the Stag
Author: Kage Baker Cover Artist: Tom Kidd Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September, 2008 In Kage Baker’s satirical fantasy, The Anvil of the World, a brief encounter with powerful Dark Lord turns out to be a bit different than expected. In The House of the Stag, Baker revisits this world to tell the infamous [...]
Book Review – Gods and Pawns
Author: Kage Baker Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2007 Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker is a collection of seven short stories (five previously published) based on other novels of hers about the “Company” which further explore several of its characters; namely Lewis, Mendoza, and Porfirio. The basic premise: [...]
Book Review – The Children of the Company
Author: Kage Baker Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 As the sixth book in the Company series, The Children of the Company follows Executive Facilitator General Labienus as he reflects on his long and immortal life. He’s quite old considering he remembers seeing the pyramids being built. By experiencing his memories we are taken [...]
