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Tom
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 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:24 pm Post subject: Author Spotlight: Fred Saberhagen |
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Fred Saberhagen
(Frederick Thomas Saberhagen)
USA (1930 - 2007)
In addition to the popular Dracula Series, Fred Saberhagen is the author of the popular Berserker (Registered Trademark Symbol) Series and the bestselling Lost Swords and Book of Lost Swords.
Berserker
1. Berserker (1967)
2. Brother Assassin (1969)
aka Brother Berserker
3. Berserker's Planet (1975)
4. Berserker Man (1979)
5. The Ultimate Enemy (1979)
6. Berserker Wars (1981)
6. Berserker Base: A Collaberative Novel (1985) (with Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Stephen Donaldson, Larry Niven, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny)
7. The Berserker Throne (1985)
8. Berserker Blue Death (1985)
9. The Berserker Attack (1987)
10. Berserker Lies (1991)
11. Berserker Kill (1993)
12. Berserker Fury (1997)
12. Berserker's Star (2003)
13. Shiva in Steel (1998)
13. Berserker Prime (2003)
14. Rogue Berserker (2005)
Berserker Death (2005)
Empire of the East
1. The Broken Lands (1968)
2. The Black Mountains (1971)
3. Changeling Earth (1973)
aka Ardneh's World
Vlad Tepes
The Dracula Tape (1975)
The Holmes-Dracula File (1978)
An Old Friend of the Family (1979)
Thorn (1980)
Dominion (1982)
A Matter of Taste (1990)
A Question of Time (1992)
A Sharpness on the Neck (1996)
The Vlad Tapes (2000)
Mask of the Sun
1. The Mask of the Sun (1979)
2. A Century of Progress (1983)
Book of the Swords
1. The First Book of Swords (1983)
2. The Second Book of Swords (1983)
3. The Third Book of Swords (1984)
The Complete Book of Swords (omnibus) (1985)
Blind Man's Blade (2012) (Post-humus)
Book of the Lost Swords
1. Woundhealer's Story (1986)
2. Sightblinder's Story (1987)
3. Stonecutter's Story (1988)
4. Farslayer's Story (1989)
5. Coinspinner's Story (1989)
6. Mindsword's Story (1990)
7. Wayfinder's Story (1992)
8. Shieldbreaker's Story (1994)
Books of the Gods
1. The Face of Apollo (1998)
2. Ariadne's Web (2000)
3. The Arms of Hercules (2000)
4. God of the Golden Fleece (2001)
5. Gods of Fire and Thunder (2002)
Novels
The Golden People (1964)
The Water of Thought (1965)
The Veils of Azlaroc (1978)
Love Conquers All (1979)
Specimens (1981)
Octagon (1981)
Earth Descended (1981)
Coils (1982) (with Roger Zelazny)
The Frankenstein Papers (1986)
Pyramids (1987)
After the Fact (1988)
The White Bull (1988)
The Black Throne (1990) (with Roger Zelazny)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (with James V Hart)
Seance for a Vampire: Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1994)
Merlin's Bones (1995)
Dancing Bears (1996)
Pilgrim (1997)
The First Swords (1998)
The Beginning: Berserkers (1998)
A Coldness in the Blood (2002)
Ardneh's Sword (2006)
Collections
The Book of Saberhagen (1975)
Saberhagen: My Best (1987)
Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires: A Saberhagen Retrospective (2009)
Series contributed to
Earth - Final Conflict
1. The Arrival (1999)
Anthologies containing stories by Fred Saberhagen
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Machines That Kill (1984)
A Very Large Array (1987)
Commando Brigade 3000 (1994)
The Williamson Effect (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Dangerous Vegetables (1998)
Prom Night (1999)
Dracula in London (2001)
Short stories
Goodlife (1963)
Masque of the Red Shift (1965) Nebula (nominee)
Mr Jester (1966)
Pressure (1967)
Inhuman Error (1974)
Martha (1976)
Smasher (1978)
Adventure of the Metal Murderer (1980)
The Bad Machines (1996)
The Senior Prom (1999)
Related Authors
R A Salvatore
Robert Silverberg
Larry Niven
David Weber
John Ringo
John Scalzi
Brandon Sanderson
Angie Sage
Lilith Saintcrow
Joel Rosenberg
John Sandford
Michael A Stackpole
Dan Simmons
David Drake
Stephen King
Wiki Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Saberhagen
Berserker Wiki Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_%28Saberhagen%29
Homepage
http://www.berserker.com/
ISFdb Page
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?602
Berserker Official Fan page
http://www.berserkerfan.org/
Berserker Lies: Book 8 in the Berserker Series
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Fred Saberhagen
Narrated By: Paul Michael Garcia
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: July 2011
Duration: 7 hours 36 minutes
http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/berserker-lies-book-8-in-the-berserker-series/98979
Audiobooks.com available titles for Fred Saberhagan
http://www.audiobooks.com/search/author/Fred%20Saberhagen
Good Reads Page
http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Fred+Saberhagen
Free Book Online Page
http://freebookonline.net/Author/Fred_Saberhagen.html
Fred Saberhagen Quotes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/fred_saberhagen.html
Fred's Astrotheme page
http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Fred_Saberhagen
Black Gate Reference to his work in D&D
http://www.blackgate.com/2013/10/20/john-bellairs-fred-saberhagen-and-appendix-n-advanced-readings-in-dd/
Golden Reflections in the Maelstrom
by
Robert E. Vardeman
| Chapter 1 foreword wrote: | The world is in the throes of change as we shift into the Digital Age from technology that has changed little since Gutenberg. This is no less profound than when the Industrial Revolution forever gave societies new ways to prosper. The Internet is scarcely fifty years old, and the World Wide Web only twenty, so the full impact of what it means to have all information-and entertainment -available through a handheld device is still murky.
The publishing industry is caught up in this maelstrom and still not sure which way to turn. One word pops to the surface of any conversation about print vs. e-books, libraries vs. online wikis, newspapers vs. blogs-and that word is content. No matter the medium, print or digital, content is king. If the reader doesn't want to see it, what's the use?
Fred Saberhagen began his career in print and immediately delivered exciting content through his wild, weird, innovative stories of Berserkers and Empires of the East and Swords and Greek gods and falling veils and, as this volume celebrates, Mask of the Sun. Most science fiction time travel stories are rooted in the same Eurocentric milieu, but Fred ventured out and posited an unexpected future, a different reason for a time war, with antagonists that should have been familiar but were not. Those struggling
for timeline supremacy are the Aztecs and the Incas, masters of the twenty-third century and would-be masters of all time.
This shift from European to Mesoamerican protagonists was not enough for him. Thrown into the time war was a more mysterious artifact. The Mask. Look through it and see . . . what? Your own destiny? What you desired most or what the Mask somehow wanted to happen? Who created it and for what purpose? The intricacies of time travel allow for one Mask to be in multiple timelines and eras. Does the Mask follow rules or does it make them?
As Joan Saberhagen has pointed out in her introduction, the possibilities suggested by this time war, those fighting it and their methods, and the Mask itself, became endless. David Weber and Jane Lindskold bubbled with ideas as different as the American Revolution is from the Pueblo Revolt. When we cast outward for other authors, their responses were similarly enthusiastic. But simply doing an anthology-strictly a print anthology-was not all that Fred would have considered. Where was the innovation? He would have sought out the different to elevate the work above the herd.
The usual approach would have been to invite twenty or so writers to contribute 5,000 word stories. But novelette and novella lengths are the ginger-haired orphans of the field and deserve better than they get. Joan and I decided to limit the number of authors but allow them more room to roam through the timeworlds of the Mask. We have six novelettes and a novella in this volume to allow top-of-the-field authors ample room to explore their ideas and alternate histories. And they have.
But still, an anthology of longer works cried out for something more. Why not reprint the novel that sparked all the enthusiasm, as well? For those readers unfamiliar with one of the finest time-travel novels in the field, Mask of the Sun is part of the volume. Seven substantial new stories and their inspiration? Only in Golden Reflections.
Baen Books is a pioneer in moving beyond the print medium and is sure to do well with online electronic sampling from this print volume. It seems only fitting that Fred Saberhagen's work will be part of the forefront of a change in presentation of solid entertainment-with content that transcends its medium of presentation.
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Golden Reflections Origins
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Joan Spicci Saberhagen
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/9781439134153/9781439134153___2.htm
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Randy
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I thought I had every Berserker book that Saberhagen wrote. I was WRONG !!!!!!!!!
I am missing "The Ultimate Enemy" and "Berserker Attack"!
Thanks for posting that list.
Now I will be searching for those 2 missing books! |
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