Kage Baker

Green Man Review has posted the following update on Kage Baker's condition.

Kage's doctor has informed us she has reached the end of useful treatment. The cancer has slowed, but not stopped. It has continued to spread at an unnatural speed through her brain, her lungs and - now - reappeared in her abdomen. It is probably a matter of a few weeks, at most. Kage has fought very hard, but this is just too aggressive and mean. She's very, very tired now, and ready for her Long Sleep. She's not afraid. We've been in a motel the last week or so, in order to complete her therapy.I'll have her home in her own bedroom by the weekend, though, so end of life care can take place in more comfortable surroundings.

There's no getting around just how much this sucks. Kage is a lovely human being and a writer who has given a lot of us many hours of rapt enjoyment. She's also a very humorous writer, and I hope that her sense of humor is helping her a little bit in these extreme circumstances. (In typical Baker fashion, when, not knowing she had cancer, we queried about her contribution to the forthcoming Lambshead Cabinet of Curiousities, she replied in part that she wasn't up to it unless we wanted her as medical specimen.)If you want to drop her a line or send her something (you really should), the information on how to do so can be found here.