{{Short description|American fantasy author}} '''Gael Baudino''' (born 1955) is a contemporary American [[fantasy]] [[author]] who also writes under the pseudonyms of Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, K.M. Tonso, and G.A. Kathryns. She attended college at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{cite book | title= Author information on last page of Dragonsword | last=Baudino | first=Gael | year=1988 | publisher=Lynx Books | isbn=1-55802-003-9}}</ref> Sometime before 1994 she converted from [[Dianic Wicca]] and became a [[Society of Friends|Quaker]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Barret | first=David V. |date=December 1994 | title=Music and Magic | journal=Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy | volume=90 | pages=19–22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_other.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011020224202/http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_other.html |url-status=usurped | archive-date=October 20, 2001 | title=Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths | accessdate=May 22, 2025}}</ref> As Gael Kathryns she contributed several instructional articles about [[Clàrsach|harping]] to the Folk Harp Journal during the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/harp/fhj/k.html |title=List of Contributors to FHJ |access-date=December 12, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061225030212/http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/harp/fhj/k.html |archive-date=December 25, 2006 }}</ref>
==Bibliography==
===The Dragonsword Trilogy=== *''[[Dragonsword (novel)|Dragonsword]]'' (1988) {{ISBN|1-55802-003-9}} *''[[Duel of Dragons (novel)|Duel of Dragons]]'' (1991) {{ISBN|0-451-45097-3}} *''[[Dragon Death (novel)|Dragon Death]]'' (1992) {{ISBN|0-451-45147-3}}
===The Strands Series=== *''[[Strands of Starlight]]'' (1989) {{ISBN|0-451-16371-0}}<ref>{{cite journal |date=January 1995 | title=Book Review: Strands of Starlight | journal=Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy | volume=91 | pages=58}}</ref> *''[[Maze of Moonlight]]'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-451-45230-5}} *''[[Shroud of Shadow]]'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-451-45294-1}} *''[[Strands of Sunlight]]'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-451-45408-1}} *''Spires of Spirit'' (1997) {{ISBN|0-451-45568-1}} - A collection of six short stories set in the "Strands" universe.
===The Water! series=== *''O Greenest Branch!'' (1995) {{ISBN|0-451-45449-9}} *''The Dove Looked In'' (1996) {{ISBN|0-451-45497-9}} *''Branch and Crown'' (1996) {{ISBN|0-451-45553-3}}
===Standalone=== *''Gossamer Axe'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-451-45025-6}} *''The Borders of Life'' (1999) as G.A. Kathryns. {{ISBN|0-451-45574-6}} * ''Darkling Incidence'' (2015) as K.M Tonso. {{ISBN|978-1938644245}}. * ''Snow City'' (2017) as G.A. Kathryns. {{ISBN|978-1542858076}}
===Short stories=== *"Lady of the Forest End" - ''Amazons II'' edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1982) {{ISBN|0-87997-736-1}} *"The Shadow of the Starlight" - published in ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' (April 1985), republished in 1997 in ''Spires of Spirit''. *"[[The Persistence of Memory (short story)|The Persistence of Memory]]" - published in: **''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (November 1985) **''The Year's Best Fantasy 12'' edited by Arthur W. Saha (1986) {{ISBN|0-88677-163-3}} **''The [[Bank Street College of Education|Bank Street]] Book of Fantasy'' edited by Howard Zimmerman (1989) {{ISBN|0-671-63146-2}}. This is a book of short stories converted into [[graphic novels]] for early teen readers. *"[[Tidings of Comfort and Joy (short story)|Tidings of Comfort and Joy]]" edited by Dennis L. McKiernan - ''The Magic of Christmas'' (1992) {{ISBN|0-451-45190-2}} *"Before" - ''Lammas Night'' edited by [[Mercedes Lackey]] (1996) {{ISBN|0-671-87713-5}} - this story occurs in the same setting as Baudino's novel ''The Borders of Life''. *"Bitterfoot" - ''Sisters in Fantasy 2'' edited by Susan Schwartz (1996) {{ISBN|0-451-45503-7}} *"Charity" - in ''Spires of Spirit''. *"Lady of Light" -in ''Spires of Spirit'' *"A Touch of Distant Hands" - in ''Spires of Spirit'' *"Elvenhome" - in ''Spires of Spirit'' *"Please Come to Denver (in the Spring)" in ''Spires of Spirit''
===Nonfiction works=== *The Wire Strung Primer (as Gael Kathryns) - Raging Celt Productions, Englewood, Colorado, 1991 *Interview by David V. Barrett: "Music and Magic", in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone Science Fiction magazine]]'' #90 (1994), page 19–22.
===Recordings=== *''For Martha'' (as Gael Kathryns) - RC901 Raging Celt Productions, Englewood, Colorado, 1990 - original harp music
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050729120218/http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/2570/gael.html |date=July 29, 2005 |title=Pages of Starlight }}, archive of a fan page *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305224106/http://scifan.com/writers/bb/BaudinoGael.asp|date=March 5, 2007|title=Bibliography }}, archive of SciFan page *{{ISFDB name|id=Gael_Baudino|name=Gael Baudino}}
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