Kage Baker books in order

Kage Baker (1952-2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for the Company novels about immortal cyborg agents of a time-travelling corporation. Born Mary Kate Genevieve Baker in Hollywood, California, on 10 June 1952, she died in Pismo Beach on 31 January 2010.

Before publishing fiction she worked for years in theatre, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language, and in insurance. The first Company novel, In the Garden of Iden, came out from Hodder & Stoughton in the UK in 1997 and from Harcourt Brace in the US in 1998. Harcourt continued with Sky Coyote (1999), Mendoza in Hollywood (2000) and The Graveyard Game (2001); Tor then published The Life of the World to Come (2004), The Children of the Company (2005) and the closing volume The Sons of Heaven (2007). Outside the Company she wrote the Anvil of the World fantasy trilogy, beginning with The Anvil of the World (Tor, 2003), and the children's book The Hotel Under the Sand (2009). Her novella The Women of Nell Gwynne's (Subterranean Press, 2009) won the Nebula Award for best novella, and "The Empress of Mars" won the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

For collectors: the UK Hodder & Stoughton edition of In the Garden of Iden (1997) precedes the American Harcourt Brace edition (1998), so it is the true first of her debut. Her small-press books are also worth seeking, notably Black Projects, White Knights (Golden Gryphon Press, 2002), Mother Aegypt and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2004) and the Nebula-winning The Women of Nell Gwynne's (Subterranean Press, 2009).