It’s sad to think there won’t be any more of it. Kage’s work deserves to be read and reread for many years to come. Flowers and donations and tributes are all well and good, but I’ve always felt that the best way to remember any writer is to read their work. I would have loved to have had the chance to buy more stories from her for future anthologies.Ĭheck out her books, if you’re not familiar with them. 'Moyasu sura kage' (Shadow even burns) speaks of burning shadow as a material (like wood), from what I can gather, so the use of nobi there would imply the use of shadow differently.

Im guessing the implication with using nobi is that the demons will burn as crops in a field on fire. She contributed a Cugel the Clever story, “The Green Bird,” to SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH, the Jack Vance tribute anthology I co-edited with Gardner Dozois, and captured Cugel perfectly, no mean feat. Kageshade suraeven Nobiburning off the fields. Lively, intelligent, good-humored, full of life. and it raises the following questions: What does the author mean by her. I did not know Kage well, but I had the chance to meet her a couple of years ago, when the two of us were Guests of Honor together at a small con in Madison, Wisconsin, and she was great company. According to Kage, this hypothesis does not explain the experiences of defeated. Kage Baker has passed away this morning, from cancer.

What does kage mean