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The Best of Kage Baker

The Best of Kage Baker

Baker, Kage

Paperback

EroticaScience FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 164506154X
ISBN13: 9781645061540
Publisher: Pyr
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 500
Language: English
Fans old and new will love this collection of short stories from the late Kage Baker, one of the best voices in science fiction and fantasy. . .

Kage Baker's death in 2010 silenced one of the most distinctive, consistently engaging voices in contemporary fiction. A late starter, Baker published her first short stories in 1997, at the age of forty-five. From then until the end of her life, she wrote prolifically and well, leaving an astonishing body of work behind.

The Best of Kage Baker is a treasure trove that gathers together twenty stories and novellas, eleven of which have never been collected anywhere. The volume is bookended by a pair of tales from her best known and best loved The Company, with its vivid cast of time traveling immortals. In Noble Mold, Mendoza the botanist and Joseph, the ancient facilitator, find themselves in 19th century California, where a straightforward acquisition grows unexpectedly complex, requiring, in the end, a carefully engineered miracle. In The Carpet Beds of Sutro Park, an autistic Company operative named Ezra encounters a lost soul named Kristy Ann, and finds a way to give her back the world that she has lost.

Among the volume's many other highlights are a pair of brilliant Company the Hugo Award-nominated Son, Observe the Time and Welcome to Olympos, Mr. Hearst, a tour de force set in the Hollywood of the 1930s and featuring an encounter with legendary newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. There is also a generous assortment of equally brilliant standalone tales, including Calamari Curls, the account of a faded resort town that takes a surprising turn into Lovecraftian terrain, and the World Fantasy Award-nominated Caverns of Mystery, in which ancient stories play themselves out repeatedly, shaping and altering the world around them.

These are only a few of the pleasures waiting within this book. The Best of Kage Baker is exactly what the title the best short work of a gifted and irreplaceable writer. Anyone with an interest in first-rate imaginative fiction - anyone with an interest in lovingly crafted fiction of any kind - needs to read this book.

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