It is with a sad heart that we here at Baen remember Rosemary Edghill (1956-2026) also known as eluki bes shahar (lower case intentional). She wrote wonderful fantasy novels for Baen, with one solo novel, The Warslayer, and an on-going series of collaborations with Mercedes Lackey, set in Lackey's world of urban fantasy.
"It's difficult for Rosemary to pinpoint her earliest science fictional influences. "It's really hard to remember, because I started reading so very early. I think it may have been a J-book called Door Into Space. I don't remember the author--not one of the 'greats'-- but it was about a kid who accidentally has an alien kid come home and spend the summer with him for some reason. From there I got hooked on the Heinlein juveniles, the early Andre Nortons--my favorites there were Night of Masks and The Stars are Ours--and read just about everything both of them wrote. Then, of course, I ended up reading everybody: Clarke, Asimov, Leiber, C.L. Moore (LOVE her!), Cordwainer Smith (wow!), the Innsmouth Kids--Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (the Grand Master of Sword and Sorcery and everybody should read every word he's ever written in every genre), Tolkien ... pretty much everything I could get my hands on in SF and Fantasy. Dune was a huge influence on me. It was, in every sense, the biggest book I'd ever seen at the time it was published. Enormous."
We will miss the whimsy and artistry she brought to us.
To read our interview with her, go to:
baen.com/interviews/intedg
To learn more about our dear friend, go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosema⦠and
fantasticfiction.com/e/rosemβ¦
To get her Baen ebooks, go to:
baen.com/allbooks/category/iβ¦
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