Kage Baker

writer
Short Story

Company


I’ve read five of Kage Baker’s highly acclaimed stories about a group of entrepreneurial time travelers from the 24th century, the first of which was “Noble Mold” in Mar 1977. Of those, my favorite was “The Likely Lad” about young Alec Checkerfield, abandoned by his blue-blood parents to be raised by the hired help; he longs for adventure on the high seas, which he does obtain—but to be honest, I didn’t think it was via time travel. (Perhaps none of the five Checkerfield stories have time travel, even though the ISFDB indicates that they’re set in the Company Universe; I shall have to read “The Likely Lad” again!).

In 2012, the first of the Company stories co-authored with Kathleen Bartholomew appeared.
For a while I lived in this little town by the sea. Boy, it was a soft job. Santa Barbara had become civilized by then: no more Indian rebellions, no more pirates storming up the beach, nearly all the grizzly bears gone. Once in a while some bureaucrat from Mexico City would raise hell with us, but by and large the days of the old Missions were declining into forlorn shades, waiting for the Yankees to come.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Noble Mold


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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novel

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In the Garden of Iden

  • by Kage Baker
  • (Hodder and Stoughton, December 1997)

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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

Son Observe the Time


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Old Flat Top

  • by Kage Baker
  • in Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (Golden Gryphon Press, August 2002)

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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

A Night on the Barbary Coast

  • by Kage Baker
  • in The Silver Gryphon, edited by Marty Halpern and Gary Turner (Golden Gryphon Press, May 2003)

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

The Catch


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  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

The Carpet Beds of Sutro Park

  • by Kage Baker
  • in The Best of Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, April 2012)

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  • Undetermined
  • Undetermined Time Travel