Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $14.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-93032-5
Saberhagen established himself in the '60s and '70s with his intense, ambitious Berserker series of space operas. Lately, however, he has devoted himself increasingly to a more relaxed, playful sequence of fantasy adventures, the Books of Swords....
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86326-5
Super saber-rattler Saberhagen strikes again, with the eighth installment of his popular Berserker series (Berserker Fury, etc.). Solarian humanity is fighting galaxywide for survival against ultimate-weapon machines able to redesign themselves and...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85939-8
The deadly struggle between the human Solarians and the berserkers, robot war machines dedicated to the extermination of organic life, continues in this disappointing entry in Saberhagen's far-future saga of interstellar warfare (Berserker Kill, etc.
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85799-8
A year before Anne Rice published Interview with the Vampire, Saberhagen published The Dracula Tape (1975), in which he dreamed up a sympathetic vampire of his own, launching a horror subgenre. Now Saberhagen's Vlad Dracula returns for his ninth...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85798-1
Fantasy and historical fiction blend well in this tale of were-bears in Russia on the brink of its 1917 Revolution. American John Sherwood goes with his friend Gregori Lohmatski to hunt a man-eating bear on Gregori's estate, only to find that the...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $22.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-312-85563-5
Proving that there's still abundant life in the oft-told Arthurian legends, Saberhagen's (The Book of Swords) reworking weaves together distant past, near future and fairy realm into a compelling and intriguing whole. In the past, a troupe of...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $20.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-85001-2
A wicked magician and a batch of demons almost succeed in taking over Sarykam, capital of Prince Mark of Tasavalta, in this lackluster 11th, and final, volume of the series that began with The First Book of Swords . Vilkata the Dark King and his...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $24.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-312-85266-5
Saberhagen's Berserker series chronicles the ongoing conflict between space-faring humanity and the doomsday war machines of the title, programmed to exterminate all life. Emerging from the depths of the Mavronari Nebula, a berserker ship takes...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $19.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-85129-3
Saberhagen, whose Thorn mixed Arthurian legend, time travel and vampires, once again blurs genre distinctions in this horror fantasy featuring that beloved SF device, time travel. Joe Keogh is a Chicago-based private investigator who is hired to...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $16.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-312-85128-6
Set in the same universe as Saberhagen's excellent Empire of the East, this book continues its sitcom spin-off exploitation of the original fantasy concept. For a game, the Gods created 12 Swords of Power, giving them to humans for use and misuse....
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $16.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-312-85046-3
Taking a break from his successful Berserker and Book of Lost Swords series, Saberhagen returns to his modern-day Count Dracula tales in this fast-paced sequel to An Old Friend of the Family . After more than a decade, the Chicago-based Southerland...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $21.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-312-85562-8
In a confection featuring both Rumania's most famous legend and England's greatest detective, a stolid prose style could have been a virtue, an understated elegance. Yet the two voices of this novel--Prince Dracula's and Dr. Watson's, narrating...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $17.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-312-85000-5
One of 12 magical swords forged by the Gods, Wayfinder has the power to guide its possessor to whatever the seeker wants. Chance brings Wayfinder to Ben of Purkinje, who uses it to find Woundhealer, the sword with powers to cure the injured wife of...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author . Tor $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87037-9
Best known for several long-running series (Berserker, Swords, Dracula), Saberhagen is now working inventive changes on Greek myths. The story of Jason and the Argonauts provides the basis for this fourth myth-based novel (after 2000's The Arms...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $14.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-312-93243-5
Returning to the milieu of his Swords trilogy, Saberhagen offers a new scenario. The gods have withdrawn from the human world and the 12 Swords of Power they had forged are now scattered, lost and hidden. The weapons are still coveted, though, by...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $16.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-312-93170-4
Saberhagen continues the saga of the 12 magical swords responsible for havoc in a distant time. The first three books of this series recounted the stories of the swords called Woundhealer, Sightblinder and Stonecutter. This volume is focused on...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87776-7
Mutant livestock such as mastodroms and cameloids roam a land very like Greece, where Saberhagen places a mild retelling (with obligatory debunking from the hero's viewpoint) of the Hercules legends. Our hero here has admittedly superhuman strength--
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87302-8
With this enticing novel, the prolific Saberhagen (Ariadne's Web, reviewed above) offers a prequel adventure to Gene Roddenberry's popular television series Earth: Final Conflict. Multibillionaire Jonathan Doors is the focus of this account of the...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-86629-7
This followup to The Face of Apollo plants one foot in the mythology of ancient Greece and the other in Saberhagen's wry take on the frailties of human nature-a slippery position, as it turns out. The novel is based on the myth of Prince Theseus,...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Baen Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65550-1
This novel picks up where Mary Shelley's classic tale left off, continuing the narrative from the monster's point of view. Through flashbacks in the monster's journal, Saberhagen also rescrambles the original story in such a way that the monster is...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $6.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8125-5322-2
Saberhagen has given SF one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series. Created for a long-forgotten conflict, the berserkers are implacable, inimical killing machines that have been programmed to rebuild and redesign...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author . Tor $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1210-5
Simple prose and a straightforward plot make the latest entry in Saberhagen's Empire of the East saga perfect for younger fantasy fans. The aristocratic parents of 15-year-old Chance Rolfson, a descendant of the hero Rolf, whose adventures are...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author . Tor $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0625-8
The ninth book in Saberhagen's Berserker series (Berserker Fury
, etc.) concerns yet another attempt by humanity to survive the life-destroying machines of an ancient race. "Berserker" is the name given to the dreadnought of unknown...
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Fred Saberhagen, Author . Tor $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0423-0
In this plodding entry in veteran Saberhagen's Berserker series (Berserker's Planet, etc.), Harry Silver, whose main claims to fame are his oversized weaponry and his love of poetry, has a cargo of parts to sell. Unfortunately, the planet he
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Fred Saberhagen, Author . Tor $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0201-4
In his fifth Books of the Gods entry, veteran Saberhagen (the Berserker, Dracula and Swords series) offers a naturalistic retelling of Germanic myth, steering his usual middle course between the grittily realistic and the fantastic. One survivor of...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author, Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $18.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-93142-1
Middle age is creeping up on the Torloc seeress Irissa and her husband Kendric, Wrathman of Rule, in the latest installment of Douglas's extended fantasy saga. Their teenage children are quite enough to keep them busy as their daughter Javelle...
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James White, Author, Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-84890-3
The second novel tied to the TV series conceived by the late Gene Roddenberry continues, in the distant past, the saga about the alien Taelons begun by Fred Saberhagen in 1999's Earth: Final Conflict: The Arrival. Early in the fourth century, Ma'el,
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