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Fred Saberhagen

Born: 1930 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Saberhagen was born in and grew up in the area of Chicago, Illinois

Biography: When in his 20's Fred served in the Armed Forces in Korea. After serving he worked as an electronics technician for the Motorola Corporation from 1958 to 1962.It was while he was working for Motorola that Saberhagen started writing fiction seriously at the age of about 30. His first sale was to Galaxy Magazine, which published his short story 'Volume PAA-PYX' in 1961. 'Fortress Ship', his first 'Berserker' short shory, was published in 1963. Then, in 1964, Saberhagen saw the publication of his first novel, The Golden People.From 1967 to 1973, he worked as an editor for the Chemistry articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica as well as writing its article on science fiction. He then quit and took up writing full time. In 1975, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he died in 2007 from prostate cancer.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Science Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://www.berserker.com
Fred Saberhagen on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=fred++saberhagen+


Selected Titles

An old friend of the family
ISBN: 9780765363893 OCLC: 489518876

Tor, New York : 2009.

The Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come. Kate Southerland, the first born of the latest generation of Southerlands, has been murdered, but she is not dead. Her little brother, Johnny, has also vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue. But the Southerlands have no clue what they've fallen into. Their enemy is no mortal madman, but the undying mistress of evil enchantment, Morgan Le Fay, and the Southerlands are not her true target. She seeks to do battle with their protector, their defender, the only man who is capable of saving this mortal family from a war they've never realized was waged.

Dominion
ISBN: 9780765364845 OCLC: 437300884

Chicago police detective Tom Keogh investigates a series of bizarre murders and becomes involved with vampires, sorcerers, and the deadly fight to gain control of a magical sword.

  Golden People
ISBN: 0671653784 OCLC: 233937135

Baen Books 1984

The Dracula tape /
ISBN: 0671578391 OCLC: 42972980

Baen Pub. Enterprises [publisher] ; Riverdale, NY : 1999, ©1975.

Presents the complete transcript of a tape in which the inimitable count presents his side of the story about a series of ghastly incidents which occurred during his visit to England in 1891.

The golden people
ISBN: 0671559044 OCLC: 11217910

Emiliano Nowell, genetic engineer, created one hundred genetically perfect children, but their frighteningly advanced talents and intelligence put them out of control as they secretly plot to replace humanity, not help.

The Holmes-Dracula file
ISBN: 9780765366139 OCLC: 503072292

In London on a personal matter, Dracula encounters Sherlock Holmes, who is attempting to catch a killer and stop a ring of criminal masterminds who are threatening to loose plague-infested rats into the streets.--Fantasticfiction.com.

Thorn /
ISBN: 0812503163 OCLC: 21109383

Tom Doherty Associates, New York : ©1990.

  Thorn.
ISBN: 9780765366177 OCLC: 515475434

Tor Fantasy 2010.

 

 

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