Fred Saberhagen -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Vlad Tapes
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Expected July 2000
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Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict : The First Protector
James White, Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published February 2000
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Before shuffling off his mortal coil (the remains of which are orbiting above us--really), TV producer Gene Roddenberry created a new series that ultimately may prove as important as Star Trek. In Earth: Final Conflict, the rather fay Taelons mean to destroy humanity--or maybe not, depending on which of the bald, watery-eyed, androgynous aliens you believe. The late Irish writer James White based this book on a series episode that revealed that the first Taelon, whose notes would convince his later kin to leave Earth in peace (or maybe not: EFC is nothing if not rife with ambiguity), had lived...

Ariadne's Web (Saberhagen, Fred, Book of the Gods, 2Nd.)
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published January 2000
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Second entry in Saberhagen's seriesfantasy or far-future SF, please yourselfabout magical masks, or Faces, that sink into the wearer's head, bestowing the attributes and memories of gods. In The Face of Apollo (1998), Apollo battled Hades; here, the action begins in the Minotaur's labyrinth. Prince Perses usurps and kills his brother, King Minosa foul deed, assisted by the human-bloodbathing destroyer-god Shiva (Saberhagen evidently found the Greeks-only format too restrictive) and his laser beam third eye, witnessed by young soldier Alex. Meanwhile, the current avatar of Dionysus dies but the...

Shiva in Steel (Saberhagen, Fred, Berserker Series.)
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1999
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With a rogue computer destroying colony after colony, Commander Claire Normandy and pilot Harry Silver join forces to smash the clever, seemingly malevolent piece of hardware, only to discover something strange and familiar living buried under its steely skin. Reprint. PW.

The Dracula Tape
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1999
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Count Dracula tells his own version of his fateful journey to England in 1891, presenting a surprising revision to the well-known tale. Original.

Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict : The Arrival
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published November 1999
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First of a projected series, each entry from a different author, expanding on the successful television series Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict (yes, Star Trek's creator is still dead, the crunching title notwithstanding). The series dramatizes a well-worn dilemma: Are the humanoid alien Taelons, having arrived on Earth from another dimension, benevolent, as they present themselves? Or are their real purposes hidden and malign? Here, prolific SF author Saberhagen (The Face of Apollo, 1998, etc.) details the origins of resistance leader Jonathan Doors's conviction that the Taelons are e...

The Face of Apollo : The First Book of the Gods (Saberhagen, Fred, Book of the Gods, 1St.)
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1999
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After a centuries-long absence, the ancient gods have returned to reclaim dominion over humanity. When young Jeremy Redthorn fulfills a dying stranger's wish, he takes on a talisman that can give him the power of a god. But that gift may not be enough to protect him from power-hungry men or vengeful immortals.

Prom Night
Nancy Springer(Editor), et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1999
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For all those new graduates with a little time on their hands, here's a chance to attend a prom that is beyond your wildest dreams! From an elf who can only stay in the mortal realm if he can get a date for the prom to a young man who finds out that forbidden acts sometimes depend on your perspective to a girl who gives a whole new slant to the legend of "Pygmalion", here are 22 evenings to remember--and be thankful that none of these people were in your class!.

The Last Book of Swords : Shieldbreaker's Story (Swords Series)
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1999
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Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them onto the gameboard of life for greedy mortals to scramble over. Too late, the gods learned that they had forged too well; the swords could kill the gods themselves. The grand finale of the epic, bestselling Swords saga. HC: Tor.

Beserkers : The Beginning [UNABRIDGED]
Fred Saberhagen, Barrett Whitener (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published February 1999
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Some of the finest modern science fiction can be found on these audiocassettes. We have here a group of much-reprinted stories connected by a common premise: Somewhere, long ago during an interstellar war, a race created vast machines with orders to wipe out all life they encountered. The war is over and the race gone, but the berserkers continue. Now they've reached the human sector of the galaxy, and the humans react. Barrett Whitener, an active audio presenter, has a peculiar breathy quality to his rich, expressive voice. He's an unexceptional but effective reader, slightly shading accents ...

Coils
Roger Zelazny, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1999
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At this very moment... A new entity is being born. Its cells are microprocessors, its soul lives in data banks from Wall Street to Red Square. It is neither good nor evil. But it is very dangerous. The Angra Oil Corporation thinks it is just another resource to be used up....

The First Swords
Fred Saberhagen / Paperback / Published January 1999
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The First Swords were forged by the gods as pieces in a great game, to be scattered across the world for mortals to fight over. Each of the 12 Swords was infused with a unique, powerful ability: the Sword of Siege could reduce a castle to rubble; Coinspinner would bring its wielder phenomenal luck; Shieldbreaker could best any weapon, even another Sword; Sightblinder would make its wielder appear to others as someone either greatly loved or greatly feared. These three books--the First, Second, and Third Book of Swords, first published in 1983 and 1984 and combined here in one volume--follow th...

Berserker Fury
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1998
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In Berserker Fury, the robots have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. They're gambling on the advantage this gives them, and massing for an all-out attack on human-held space. But the humans have developed a trick of their own--they've cracked the Berserker's basic codes, and know what their battle plan will be.

Lord of the Fantastic : Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny
Martin Harry Greenberg(Editor), Fred Saberhagen (Introduction) / Paperback / Published September 1998
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Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) was a magnificently inventive fantasy writer. He wrote about time, imagination, morality, philosophy, religion, politics, and storytelling. Many of his best books are out of print at present (though the Amber series is being reissued by Avon), but Lord of the Fantastic is a worthy tribute to his multifaceted genius.

Shiva in Steel (Berserker Series/Fred Saberhagen)
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published September 1998
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This is another installment in Fred Saberhagen's ongoing saga of war between humanity and the almost-sentient death machines known as Berserkers. For long years the war has been at a stalemate, with humanity managing to fend off the bulk of Berserker attacks and even strike back from time to time. But on a remote planet called Hyperborea, things are about to change. The Berserkers have developed a new tactical computer that has proven unbeatable, and it could spell the death of all living things in the galaxy. A last-ditch effort to destroy the machine, code-named Shiva, has failed, and now th...

Berserkers : The Beginning
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1998
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Complete at last in one volume--the beginning of the war against the berserkers! The death machines are programmed to destroy all life in the Galaxy. But one branch of Galactic humanity, descended from a world called Earth, stands in the way.

The Face of Apollo (Book of the Gods/Fred Saberhagen, 1)
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published April 1998
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0-312-86408-6 First of a new series from Saberhagen--your choice whether you call it fantasy or far-future science fiction--an offshoot of, or prequel to, his Lost Swords yarns (The Last Book of Swords, 1994, etc.). In a terrible battle inside Mount Olympus, Hades the god of the underworld kills Apollo the god of light. Some days later, a severely wounded young woman, Sal, begs help from 15-year-old field-worker Jeremy Redthorn. Soon, soldiers seeking Sal--and the mysterious object of power she carries- -attack and destroy Jeremy's village. Jeremy, though, manages to escape after recovering th...

The Face of Apollo : The First Book of the Gods (Saberhagen, Fred, Book of the Gods, 1St.)
Fred Saberhagen / Paperback / Published April 1998
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0-312-86408-6 First of a new series from Saberhagen--your choice whether you call it fantasy or far-future science fiction--an offshoot of, or prequel to, his Lost Swords yarns (The Last Book of Swords, 1994, etc.). In a terrible battle inside Mount Olympus, Hades the god of the underworld kills Apollo the god of light. Some days later, a severely wounded young woman, Sal, begs help from 15-year-old field-worker Jeremy Redthorn. Soon, soldiers seeking Sal--and the mysterious object of power she carries- -attack and destroy Jeremy's village. Jeremy, though, manages to escape after recovering th...

A Sharpness on the Neck
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1998
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In 1792, Philip Radcliffe comes to France to deliver a letter to Thomas Payne only to doom himself and his descendants to suffer a vampire's eternal vengeance. In present day, Philip and June Radcliffe are kidnapped on their honeymoon. Their captor, a mysterious Mr. Graves, swears that he aims to protect them. Yet as the thrilling story unfolds, involving Napoleon, the Marquis de Sade, and the Scarlet Pimpernel, as well as Jerry Cruncher and Detective Dupin, the young couple refuses to believe him--a mistake that is certain to cost them their lives.

Pilgrim
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1997
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Who is Pilgrim? Tom Scheffler and Jerry Flint are going to find out the hard way, because the mysterious Pilgrim is going to have them fighting for their lives centuries, millennia before they were born. Pilgrim is the rogue time traveler trying to change the course of history for his own ends. And even if the two hapless adventurers survive Pilgrim's deadly game, they have no assurance that they will ever see their own timeline again.

Seance for a Vampire
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1997
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A seance held in an aristocratic London home goes horribly awry when one of the undead nosferatu appear. The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudulent spiritualists dead, Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and mystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the only one who might be able to help--Holmes' vampire cousin, Prince Dracula.

Dominion
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1997
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The powers of Evil are alive and well in modern-day America. Vlad Tepes, Prince of old Wallachia in life and Master of the Undead beyond the grave, has roamed modern America without fear--until now. Suddenly, he is no longer the only immortal being in Chicago. Reissue.

Berserker Fury (Berserker Series/Fred Saberhagen)
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published August 1997
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Before the Death Star, before the Borg, there were the "berkserkers." In this powerful new novel, the space-faring killing machines are back with the sole purpose of destroying all life. Science Fiction magazine says, " Saberhagen's| homicidal robots manage to make Aliens look like wimps.".

Dancing Bears
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1997
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In a Russia on the brink of Revolution, the legendary were-bears of Slavic myth suddenly reappear. "Fred Saberhagen's Dancing Bears is an exciting tale of an American hunter chased across pre-Revolutionary Russia by a noble with the ability to turn into a bear."--Weekly Press.

Brother Assassin
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1997
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On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and sublte mode of attack. Now, the time and place of the next attack has been pinpointed--the berserkers will try to eliminate Vincent Vincento, an early genius whose loss will cost mankind a hundred years of progress in the physical sciences. Derron Odegard, one of the elite corps of Time Operatives, has the toughest assignment in Sirgol's history--protect Vincento at any cost.

A Sharpness on the Neck
Fred Saberhagen / Hardcover / Published October 1996
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In 1792, Phillip Radcliffe becomes caught up in the Terror of the French Revolution and unwittingly saves the life of Prince Vlad Dracula, the most honorable of the Nosferatu, bringing down the eternal vengeance of the Prince's evil brother on himself and his descendants.

Second Book of Lost Swords : Sightblinders Story
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1996
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Merlin's Bones
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1996
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"Many have written of King Arthur, but in Merlin's Bones Fred Saberhagen has wonderfully connected Camelot, what came after, and what came before, with our own near future through the spiraling coils of time. Nothing is what you were told, nothing is what you remember, nothing is what it seems. It's terrific." says Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time. HC: Tor.

An Armory of Swords
Fred Saberhagen(Editor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1996
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Saberhagen has brought together some of the best fantasy writers in the field to create their own stories within the universe of his Lost Swords series. This book features works by Walter Jon Williams, Sage Walker, and a new tale by the master himself--Fred Saberhagen's "Blind Man's Blade"--reveals how the Swords were originally thrust into the human realm. HC: Tor.

Dancing Bears
Fred Saberhagen / Audio Cassette / Published January 1996
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John Sherwood, an American hunter, accompanies his friend Gregori Lohmatski to Lohmatski's family estate in pre-revolutionary Russia to hunt a man-eating bear, where Sherwood soon finds himself hunted by the political police and haunted by legends of shape-shifting men.

Third Book of Swords
Fred Saberhagen / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1995
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