Kage Baker’s first novel, In the Garden of Iden, a Novel of the Company, has just been published by Harcourt Brace. Her next company book, Sky Coyote, will be out in early 1999. Regarding her latest tale, Ms. Baker says, “The Pismo Dunes really...
All of the mortals referred to in Kage Baker’s latest Company story (her first, “Noble Mold,” appeared in our March 1997 issue), actually lived and worked in the last century at Fort Ross—Russia’s failed colony just north of San Francisco....
Kage Baker tells us that “it is a matter of recorded fact that Robert Louis Stevenson did go off alone into the mountains above Monterey in 1879, where he fell ill and lay delirious for three days under an oak tree, before being found by hunters....