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?

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)

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

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? 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.
 * 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)
 * 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)