The Best of Kage Baker eBook Kage Baker JK Potter
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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 creation 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 novellas 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 proclaims 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.
The Best of Kage Baker eBook Kage Baker JK Potter
The loss of Kage Baker in the last few years was a sad thing for fans of her time traveling cyborgs and her politically correct future, totalitarian dystopia. This collection brings together a representative range of Baker's short work focused on the Company and her short work based in the universe of her fantasy trilogy as well as a sampling of individual and original stories from other collections. One of my favorites, Welcome to Olympus Mr. Hearst, which puts the reader inside a house party at San Simeon during the Golden Age of Hollywood complete with company operatives is of course, a stand-out, but the other stories from her collection are of similar quality. Hanuman and Old Flat Top are similar Company stand outs.It always entrances me that Baker manages to address deep conundrums with a joy and wit that doesn't detract a bit from the seriousness of her subject...for example what it means to be human or what constitutes a moral society. Baker 's immortals are some of the few ever written that express both their human origins and the problems inherent to living forever with an essentially human psyche modified by the fact and experience of their immortality. No centenarians in love with teenage girls here.
In the new material, Are You Afflicted with Dragons is a joyous riff on the Pied Piper. Even Bakers love affair with pirates gets an outing.
The unpublished works are fun too. Usually, when a writer's "trunk" is inventoried after their death and unpublished works see the light of day, it is a mixed blessing as the quality of the unpublished or unfinished works often falls short. Not so with this collection. All of the stories are a joy and put a smile on my face and while not every one was a masterpiece of the level of Mr. Hearst, all had the characteristic Kage Baker sparkle.
J.K. Potter's illustrations are always a treat and show to good advantage even in the Kindle edition. I am becoming a huge fan of the Subterranean Press editions mostly due to Potter's brilliance as an illustrator. His/her illustrations always reflect and add to the story.
A good read and a great edition. This is a Best of collection worthy of the name.
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The Best of Kage Baker eBook Kage Baker JK Potter Reviews
I have a copy of this book (Sub. Press hc -- o.o.p.!) and another copy for ME in my e-reader, but my sister needed an introduction to the late, great Kage Baker. I should recommend she start with the non-Company stories, but I like most of these stories so much...
Maybe she should start with Calamari Curls heheheheh
Kage Baker's death was shocking and a great loss. She was one of the best writers working in both science fiction and fantasy. If you haven't read her books, you should immediately. Her characters, plots and humor were all outstanding. It is some consolation that we have one last collection of her work.
Collection of shorts from an amazing author, gone too soon.
Her final book. Some authors flatten out after while. This is a prime example of that, still it's a must read for a Kage Baker fan, which I am. enjoyed her other series (company series) greatly.
I had never read anything by Ms. Baker until after she was Gu\st of Honor at WesterCon in Las Vegas years ago. What appealed to me later was her emphasis on old California, old Hollywood, etc. I have become a fan posthumously after her SUDDEN and unexpected passing. I like time travel stories anyway
Kage Baker is known only to a relatively small but rabid fan base. This book contains a few of her wonderful "Company Series" stories and then others written in her own unique style & genre. I almost hesitate to call this the "Best" of Kage Baker, because everything she wrote in her tragically short career & life, was wonderful.
Even though I savored each story, I too quickly came to the last one, "The Carpet Beds of Sutro Park." You have to read all the other `Company' stories in the book, I think, to fully get The Carpet Beds, which ends the book on a sweet/sad/hopeful note.
Kage was a superb artist, and this is a good introduction for new fans...Read it, get hooked.
Reading science-fiction over a sixty year period I find it is not always easy to discover a new book, or a new (to me) writer who grabs you in the first few pages and lets you know you are in capable hands. Most of these stories, and I have not read them all, are about something Ms Baker calls The Company. The Company is a group of immortals who appear here and there over the centuries Human kind has been in existence to keep the human race heading in the right direction. Wherever that may be. All the stories are equally good and all bring back the fun of reading science-fiction magazines in the 1950s. A real pleasure.
The loss of Kage Baker in the last few years was a sad thing for fans of her time traveling cyborgs and her politically correct future, totalitarian dystopia. This collection brings together a representative range of Baker's short work focused on the Company and her short work based in the universe of her fantasy trilogy as well as a sampling of individual and original stories from other collections. One of my favorites, Welcome to Olympus Mr. Hearst, which puts the reader inside a house party at San Simeon during the Golden Age of Hollywood complete with company operatives is of course, a stand-out, but the other stories from her collection are of similar quality. Hanuman and Old Flat Top are similar Company stand outs.
It always entrances me that Baker manages to address deep conundrums with a joy and wit that doesn't detract a bit from the seriousness of her subject...for example what it means to be human or what constitutes a moral society. Baker 's immortals are some of the few ever written that express both their human origins and the problems inherent to living forever with an essentially human psyche modified by the fact and experience of their immortality. No centenarians in love with teenage girls here.
In the new material, Are You Afflicted with Dragons is a joyous riff on the Pied Piper. Even Bakers love affair with pirates gets an outing.
The unpublished works are fun too. Usually, when a writer's "trunk" is inventoried after their death and unpublished works see the light of day, it is a mixed blessing as the quality of the unpublished or unfinished works often falls short. Not so with this collection. All of the stories are a joy and put a smile on my face and while not every one was a masterpiece of the level of Mr. Hearst, all had the characteristic Kage Baker sparkle.
J.K. Potter's illustrations are always a treat and show to good advantage even in the edition. I am becoming a huge fan of the Subterranean Press editions mostly due to Potter's brilliance as an illustrator. His/her illustrations always reflect and add to the story.
A good read and a great edition. This is a Best of collection worthy of the name.
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