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unusual facts about Kage Baker



Coyotes in popular culture

The character appears in stranger guises in The Nagasaki Vector by L. Neil Smith, as a cyborg who specializes in scent tracking, and in Sky Coyote by Kage Baker, wherein the role of "Sky Coyote" is taken on by the cyborg Joseph in order to convince a Chumash community in California to evacuate in advance of European exploration.

Tars Tarkas

In Kage Baker's novel The Empress of Mars, human colonists on Mars have a Christmas-like celebration, and a settler appears costumed as "Uncle Tars Tarkas", giving gifts to children as if he were Father Christmas or Santa Claus.


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Characters in the Novels of the Company

Hearst's famous residence Hearst Castle, in San Simeon, California, is relatively close (50 miles) from Kage Baker's longtime home, Pismo Beach, California.