Talk:Kage Baker

Heck if I know

Should this still be marked as a stub? It seems reasonably complete given Ms. Baker's stature and the amount of information publicly available about her. It's probably too early in her career to add a section about themes in her work, for instance. --Jim Henry 21:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am just excited to find an article about her. Cyclopiano 10:26, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

I've restored reviews deleted by User:TheRingess. Links to reviews are explicitly encouraged in Wikipedia articles about novelists. Cheers, Pete Tillman 18:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks for letting me know about that policy. TheRingess (talk) 19:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Agent?

The mention of her agent smacks of advertising. Are there any other author articles where the author's agent gets a mention?

sources

I'm able to confirm Ms. Baker's year and place of birth (1952, Hollywood) as well as place of residence (Pismo Beach) and venue of first publication (Asimov's 1997) from the back jacket copy of a hardback edition of Black Projects, White Nights. Does that count as a source? 64.142.37.232 01:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Most if not all of the facts on the page could be sourced to the biography and bibliography sections of Ms Baker's home page. Why is that not a sufficient source for this kind of article? --Jim Henry 12:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Um...TEESOL?

"Teaching Elizabethan English as a Second Language"...Huh?

That cries out for some sort of reference. --SandChigger 11:08, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I might be able to scrounge something up from a convention program book bio. She gave a talk on Elizabethan English as a Second Language at Worldcon in 2004. --Jim Henry 12:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

That's OK. The hits from googling the phrase (in quotes) refer almost exclusively to Baker, so it appears to be her "thing".

While I can see teaching Elizabethan English to students majoring in the literature of the period, I can't see it having any relevance at all to my first-year agriculture and science/technology kids. --SandChigger 15:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Kage and Kate, as we knew them at Renaissance Pleasure Faire (Southern & Northern), taught "Elizabethan 101," an introduction to speaking the speech and learning in the time of Queen Elizabeth, for pre-Faire workshops for many years, under the auspices of the Living History Centre's College of the Performing Arts. Their self-published pamphlets were offered as primers. --Pam Matthews, Albuquerque, NM-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.50.73.178 (talk) 02:27, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

removing request for photo

A photo was added but the request for the a photo was never removed.

Ronny corral (talk) 18:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Passing

Her friends on Facebook report that Kage Baker passed away in the early hours of 31 January 2010. I'll refrain from updating the article since I don't have a citable source as yet. (Watch SFWA.org.) - PKM (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

That's sad but not surprising. Thank you for your caution in waiting for a reliable source. --Stepheng3 (talk) 17:58, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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The following email was sent to a news list that I am associated with. I cannot substantiate the information therefore I am not posting it on the article page. MD (talk) 21:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC) Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Fisher Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM Subject: Important News To: greenmanlist

At 1:15am January 31, 2010, at home in Pismo Beach, our own Kage Baker sailed with the tide surrounded by family. She had a very good Saturday full of laughter. The end came very quickly and quietly.

That is all I have to say about that.

-Wayne

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Posthumous Book

Someone needs to create an article for Not Less than Gods (2010) ISBN 978-0765318916, which went on sale March 16, 2010.

I would do it myself, but I am not willing to dink with a wiki account. 209.169.85.18 (talk) 13:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Here is the WorldCat information.

Title: Not Less Than Gods

Author: Kage Baker

Publisher: Tor / Macmillan, 2010

ISBN 0765318911 ISBN 9780765318916

OCLC number: 428026860 209.169.85.18 (talk) 13:56, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

That's not enough information to make an encyclopedia article. Can you point us to some reliable sources that have more to say about the book? --Stepheng3 (talk) 12:34, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Tribute to Jack Vance

Baker contributed to Songs of the Dying Earth. Did she really write a 24-page Afterword while 21 other authors wrote two to five pages?

• Songs of the Dying Earth first edition publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

If so then both the story and its afterword should be listed here. --P64 (talk) 22:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

There is a 20-page difference in page numbers that ISFDB reports, from that edition to the next U.S. edition.

• Songs of the Dying Earth first Tor edition publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

This implies Afterword by Baker (plus introduction of the next story) equal to the others in length, but the "shortstory" label of the next author's fiction does not fit. --P64 (talk) 19:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

• the story itself —Tamfang (talk) 20:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:

• Cite templates will be used where possible.
• Tables may be used to organise short stories, poems and/or book reviews.
• I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
• Links (either direct or indirect) to potentially unreliable or incomplete digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed.

This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:44, 26 May 2023 (UTC)