Obituary: Kage Baker

Author Kage Baker (b.1952) died on January 31. Baker was the author of several novels in the “Company” series and won the Sturgeon Award for her novella “Empress of Mars,” which was published in an expanded version in 2009. She began publishing with the short story “Noble Mold” in 1997 and followed up with her first novel, In The Garden of Iden, the next year. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Baker was suffering from uterine cancer.