Fred Saberhagen

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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    September 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Berserker

1 - Berserker (1967)
2 - Brother Assassin (1969)
3 - Berserker's Planet (May-1980)
4 - Berserker Man (Mar-1979)
5 - The Ultimate Enemy (Sep-1979)
6 - Berserker Wars (Dec-1981)
7 - The Berserker Throne (May-1985)
8 - Blue Death (Aug-1987)
9 - Berserker Kill (Sep-1993)
10 - Berserker Fury (1997)
11 - Shiva in Steel (1998)
12 - Berserker's Star (Jun-2003)
13 - Berserker Prime (Dec-2003)
14 - Rogue Berserker (Jan-2005)
The Defender (Dec-1981)
Berserker Lies (Sep-1991)

Book of Swords

1 - The First Book of Swords (Mar-1983)
2 - The Second Book of Swords (Nov-1983)
3 - The Third Book of Swords (Aug-1984)
Blind Man's Blade (Jun-2012)

Book of the Gods

1 - The Face of Apollo (1998)
2 - Ariadne's Web (Jan-2000)
3 - The Arms of Hercules (Apr-2002)
4 - God of the Golden Fleece (Aug-2001)
5 - Gods of Fire and Thunder (Aug-2002)

Dracula

The Dracula Tape (1975)
The Holmes-Dracula File (1978)
Thorn (1980)
Dominion (Jul-1982)
A Matter of Taste (Jun-1990)
A Question of Time (May-1992)
An Old Friend of the Family (Dec-1992)
A Sharpness on the Neck (Oct-1996)
A Coldness in the Blood (2002)

Empire of the East

1 - The Broken Lands (1968)
2 - Black Mountains (1971)
3 - Ardneh's World (1973)
4 - Ardneh's Sword (May-2006)

Lost Swords

1 - Woundhealer's Story (Oct-1986)
2 - Sightblinder's Story (Nov-1987)
3 - Soul Warrior (Aug-1984)
3 - Stonecutter's Story (May-1988)
4 - Farslayer's Story (Jul-1989)
5 - Coinspinner's Story (Dec-1989)
6 - Mindsword's Story (Dec-1990)
7 - Wayfinder's Story (Jun-1992)
8 - Shieldbreaker's Story (Feb-1994)
Second Triad ()

Pilgrim

After the Fact (Mar-1988)

Multi-Author Series List

Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict

1 - The Arrival (Nov-1999)

Book List in Order: 82 titles

  • Berserker

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    Berserker - 1

    THE DEATH MACHINES Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met -- and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers ...

  • The Broken Lands

    Empire of the East - 1

    Hear me, for I am Ardneh! Ardneh, who rides the Elephant, who wields the lightning, who rends fortifications as the rushing passage of time consumes cheap cloth. You slay me in this avatar, but I live on in other human beings. I am Ardneh, and in the...

  • Brother Assassin

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    Berserker - 2

    HUMANITY VS. THE DEATH MACHINES ON THE STRANGEST PLANET IN THE GALAXY... On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and subtle mode of attack -- for in all the galaxy only on Sirgol is time travel possible. Now, fought to a standstill i...

  • Black Mountains

    Empire of the East - 2

    Chup begged the Lady Charmian; then he turned and knelt down slowly, face toward the cliff. Charmian was at his right, holding the long bade point down at the ground. He said, Now, about this little surgery I need ... I suppose a single stroke would ...

  • Ardneh's World

    Empire of the East - 3

    The Demon Lord Zapranoth will devour you, if the Beast Lord Draffut cannot save you. Her look seemed to him that his behavior was far from being unendurable; that, perhaps, if it went on a little longer it might even begin to give her pleasure...

  • Changeling Earth

  • The Dracula Tape

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker portrayed him as a terrifying creature of the night, heartless, soul-less, preying on the pure and innocent. The truth is far different. Dracula is no villain but a tower of strength, eternally protecting his land and his people from th...

  • The Book of Saberhagen

    DAW Books, 1975. Mass market paperback original. 1st edition. Collection of stories, with introduction by the author. Includes: The Long Way Home (1961); Planeteer (1961); Volume PAA-PYX (1961); Seven Doors to Education (1961); Deep Space (1975); Pr...

  • Specimens

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    First, strange odors … and nightmares that stretch across Time. Images of a hideous machine dragging Indians, colonials, slaves to an ancient mound … then a hellish light pulses from a hidden room … and suddenly Dan Post is trapp...



  • The Holmes-Dracula File

    Dracula

    Crime Makes Strange Partnerships And none stranger than that between Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula. Holmes confronts a pair of impossible problems: a ring of criminal masterminds threatening to loose thousands of plague-infested rats into t...

  • The Mask of the Sun

    When Mike Gabrieli's neer'do'well brother Tom disappears shortly after discovering a fabulously valuable Aztec relic, Mike rightly suspects that this time the family's black sheep has got himself into the kind of trouble from which even Mike won't be...

  • Berserker Man

    Berserker - 4

    THE RETURN OF THE DEATH MACHINES Long ago, the forces of humanity under the brilliant leadership of Johann Karlsen met and conquered the berserkers at a place called Stone Heath. So total was Karlsen's victory that the rulers of the worlds of men...

  • The Ultimate Enemy

    Berserker - 5

    LIFE AGAINST DEATH For countless millennia the dreadful Berserker fleets have ranged across the galaxy in a relentless war against all things living. Great irony is it indeed in this war of life against mechanism that while the purposes of Death are...

  • Thorn

    Dracula

    Europe, 500 Years Ago Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, hunts royal prey -- a renegade Princess. Ordered to kill the woman, he tracks her across the continent -- but finding her, Dracula loses his heart. The United States, Today Undead, Vlad Tepe...

  • Berserker's Planet

    Berserker - 3

    DEATH GOD... Five hundred years have passed since the combined fleets of humanity met and broke the berserker armada at Stone Heath. But though the human victory was total, one of the killer machines -- weaponless, its star drive a ruin -- managed ...

  • Octagon

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    THEY CALL IT "STARWEB".... Players scattered across the continent are engaged in a game. Each player has certain attributes, including skill, strength, courage, cunning, and daring. Each has his kingdom. Each can ally with or attack any of the oth...

  • Earth Descended

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  • Spadeful of Spacetime

  • Veils of Azlaroc

    A classic time-travel story. The settlers and tourists on Azlaroc are trapped in an ageless void during Veilfall, when shimmering rays of pure energy fall on the planet and create a time pocket from which there is no escape.

    ...



  • Berserker Wars

    Berserker - 6

    "LIFE AND DEATH IN DREADFUL CONFLICT STROVE..." It happened long ago and far away. Perhaps in this galaxy, perhaps in one close by. Two war-maddened races fought -- and though both are gone, their legacy abides: the Frankenstein weapon that destroyed...

  • The Defender

    Berserker

  • Pawn to Infinity

  • Dominion

    Dracula

    Chicago police detective, Joe Keogh, whose family claims  a relationship to Dracula, investigates bizarre murders  involving vampires, sorcerers (Merlin) and a magic sword.  Another great addition to Saberhagen’s Dracula series....

  • The First Book of Swords

    Book of Swords - 1

    Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives......

  • The Second Book of Swords

    Book of Swords - 2

    For a game the gods have given the world twelve Swords of Power, so that they might be amused as the nations go to war for possession of them. But Vulcan Swordmaker has had his little joke: the Swords can kill the gods themselves. What started out as...

  • Soul Warrior

    Lost Swords - 3

    Coinspinner, Farslayer, Mindsword, and nine more...The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game--but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. And as the gods begin to die, the mortals find that life is not what it seemed...
    ...

  • The Third Book of Swords

    Book of Swords - 3

    Coinspinner, Farslayer, Mindsword, and nine more... The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game--but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. And as the gods begin to die, the mortals find that life is not what it seemed......

  • Love Conquers All

    In a world where zero population growth is strictly enforced and sexual permissiveness is the chief means of control, a young woman's decision to bear her third child makes her the target of concerted oppression...

  • The Berserker Throne

    Berserker - 7

    Another episode in the Berserker wars of the far distant future when powerful machines continue trying to eradicate all life and the living battle back. Space opera, political intrigue, touches of technology. The main character, a royal, political pr...



  • The Frankenstein Papers

    What really happened on that Dark and Stormy Night? Shelley's classic novel FRANKENSTEIN was a publishing sensation. Alas, we Moderns know that the central event she described -- the reanimation of a long-dead corpse by the application of electricit...

  • Woundhealer's Story

    Lost Swords - 1

    Once the gods forged twelve Swords of Power, but they forged too well: The Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone, the Swords are scattered across the land and Mark, Prince Consort of Tasavalta, must find Woundhealer, the Swor o...

  • Pyramids

    Tom Scheffler knew that his great-uncle, Montgomery Chapel, had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artifacts that were finer than those in any museum. Scheffler also knew that -- fifty years later -- Chapel was still afraid of some man, so...

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  • Blue Death

    Berserker - 8

    The great blue Berserker's destruction of the human colony Shubra was swift and merciless. And when it was over, Niles Domingo's daughter lay among the dead. Now Niles Domingo is a man with a mission: vengeance at any cost.

    With one small ship,...

  • The Golden People

    The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions . . . Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used...

  • Sightblinder's Story

    Lost Swords - 2

    Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life to watch men scramble. But the had forged too well; the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone, the Swords are scattered across the land, s...

  • After the Fact

    Pilgrim

    ASSASSINATION PLOT Once again Fred Saberhagen's remarkable new series character, Pilgrim, is at the center of strange and mysterious affairs. When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he might fue...

  • Stonecutter's Story

    Lost Swords - 3

    The gods forged the Twelve Swords of Power; now the gods have been destroyed by their own handiwork. The Swords are loose in the world, falling into the hands of human beings, changing human lives for good and ill. Young Kasimir was the custodian ...

  • Coils

    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 White Bull

    In the reign of Minos, King of the Cretans, the gods gave proof of their existence: a bull-headed man accompanied by his bronzen servitor strode forth from Neptune''s realm. At last the gods had removed the veils that separated them from their wor...

  • A Century of Progress

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    For centuries two meg-powers from the future have been waging war for control of timelines of history. Alan Norlund, a WWII airman vet, is promised a lifesaving cure for his granddaughter, if he will undertake a mission 50 years back in time to t...

  • Farslayer's Story

    Lost Swords - 4

    Long, long ago, the Gods forged Twelve Swords of Power, each with a unique and deadly quality. They forged too well, for the swords could kill the Gods themselves. Then the swords were lost, scattered across the land; and many are they, both good and...

  • Coinspinner's Story

    Lost Swords - 5

    The gods thought it a fine jest when they forged the Twelve Swords of Power and gave them to mere mortals to fight over. The jest turned sour when men learned that the Swords could kill the gods; now the gods are gone, and the Swords are scattered am...

  • A Matter of Taste

    Dracula

    Ex-cop Joe Keogh is called in by his brother-in-law, John Southerland, when the visit of Matthew Maule, an "old friend" of the Southerlands, leads to a series of bizarre events, and Keogh soon discovers that the visitor is none other than Dracula him...

  • Mindsword's Story

    Lost Swords - 6

    Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life for men to scramble over. But they forged too well; the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now the great Mindsword reenters the world of men, bringing oth...

  • Berserker Lies

    Berserker

    [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

    [Read by Paul Michael Garcia]

    This collection of short stories continues the ongoing saga of the Berserker wars with ''The Machinery of Lies,'' ''Masque of the Red Shift,'' ''In the Temple of Ma...

  • Machines That Kill

  • A Question of Time

    Dracula

    He was once called DRACULA but in our day he is known by many strange names.... In 1935, Conservation Corps worker Jake Rezner meets a beautiful and mysterious young girl in the Grand Canyon. She leads him deep into the rocks, to a bizarre sculpto...

  • Wayfinder's Story

    Lost Swords - 7

    Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life for men to scramble over. But they forged too well; the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone and the Swords scattered, Wayfinder, the Sword ...



  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

  • An Old Friend of the Family

    Dracula

    Kate Southerland has been murdered. But she is not dead. Johnny Southerland has vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue. The Southerlands are trapped in a blood-feud older than history. Their enemy is no mortal madman but the undying mistr...

  • Berserker Kill

    Berserker - 9

    "Saberhagen's Berserker stories are among the most familiar series in the genre, set in a universe where automated starships wage war against all forms of life. But suddenly one Berserker behaves differently, stealing an entire orbiting biological la...

  • The Lost Swords

    Novel inventory clearance Hardcover Publisher: Guild America Books (1994) Language: English ISBN-10: 1568651007 ISBN-13: 978-1568651002 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds...

  • Shieldbreaker's Story

    Lost Swords - 8

    Fred Saberhagen brings his immensely popular Swords series to a thrilling conclusion in the tale of Shieldbreaker--the Sword of Force, against which there is no defense. Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gamebo...

  • Seance for a Vampire

    When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose Altamont and his wife the opportunity to contact their recently deceased daughter, the wealthy British aristocrat wastes no time in hiring Sherlock Holmes to expose their hoax. He arranges for the celebrated de...

  • Merlin's Bones

    "Proving that there's still abundant life in the oft-told Arthurian legends, Saberhagen's reworking weaves together distant past, near future and fairy realm into a compelling and intriguing whole. In the past, a troupe of traveling players is pursue...

  • Dancing Bears

    On the brink of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, an American hunter is chased across Russia by a nobleman with the preternatural ability to turn into a bear--a metaphor of Russia's own transformation. Reprint....

  • An Armory of Swords

    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 himsel...

  • A Sharpness on the Neck

    Dracula

    In 1792, Philip Radcliffe, the bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, comes to France to deliver a letter to Thomas Paine--only to get caught up in a conflict far more horrifying than the Revolution. By foiling a powerful vampire's attempt at fratricide, ...

  • Berserker Fury

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    Berserker - 10

    Intelligent, space-faring killing machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all biological life, the Berserkers have developed units that can pass for human-created androids to be used to for an all-out attack on humankind, but the humans are one ste...

  • Pilgrim

    Tom Scheffler and Jerry Flint find themselves fighting for their lives millennia before they are to be born when a mysterious, looting time traveler known only as Pilgrim seeks to change the course of history for his own ends. Original....

  • The Face of Apollo

    Book of the Gods - 1

    Ancient Greece has many heroes. Young Jeremy Redthorn, seemingly doomed to virtual slavery as a farm laborer, doesn't think of himself as one. But when he risks his life for a beautiful, wounded stranger, he soon finds himself on a perilous mission. ...

  • Shiva in Steel

    Berserker - 11

    One Berserker computer has suddenly developed a tactical strategy unlike anything the human opposition has ever seen. Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction after which it was named, annihilates entire colonies with the help of its fiendish subordi...

  • Water of Thought

    It drove men mad...but each in a different way. In one the effect was total, utter addiction. In another, a compulsion to absolute obedience. In a third, idealistic monomania. In a fourth, unending, all-consuming lust. Of all the enigmas surroundi...

  • The First Swords

    Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords novels have captivated fantasy readers for more than a decade. Here, now available in one volume, are the three books that started it all.

    For a game the gods have given the world twelve Swords of Power so th...

  • The Arrival

    Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict - 1

    Jonathan Doors He is the head of the world's largest corporation, Doors International. A man of wealth and power, with the resources to reshape the world. A man whose life is about to change forever.... In the early days of the twenty-first centu...

  • Ariadne's Web

    Book of the Gods - 2

    Theseus is a young man sentenced to be sacrificed to the gods. Ariadne is deeply in love with him. She conspires to save him from his grisly fate, but doesn't count on Dionysus stepping in to complicate matters. With mythical beasts and whimsical god...

  • God of the Golden Fleece

    Book of the Gods - 4

    When Proteus crawls from the sea, brain dam-aged from a fight with a terrible giant, all he can put together from his shattered memory is that he was sent to aid Jason and the Argonauts on their incredible mission. As he joins them on their quest, Pr...

  • Box Number Fifty

    in Dracula in London

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COUNT DRACULA Brain Stoker's immortal tale of vampirism told the story of how Count Vlad Tepes came to London and met his demise at the hands of Abraham van Helsing's vampire hunters. But how did Dracula occupy his time when he ...

  • A Coldness in the Blood

    Dracula

    When the vampire Dickon and his human partner appear in the middle of the night frightened for their lives, the powerful vampire Matthew Maule offers them protection. They carry with them a small Egyptian statue of great value and many secrets. In...

  • The Arms of Hercules

    Book of the Gods - 3

    Continuing Book of the Gods, the series that kicked off with The Face of Apollo and Adrian's Web, New York Times-bestselling author Fred Saberhagen (The Berserker Series) again puts his own twist on Greek mythology in Book III, The Arms of Hercules. ...

  • Gods of Fire and Thunder

    Book of the Gods - 5

    Haraldur the Northman wants nothing more to do with adventure and gods. Returning to his homeland for the first time in many years, he hopes to settle down on a farm of his own--until he comes across an impenetrable wall of eldritch fire. Beyond t...

  • Berserker's Star

    Berserker - 12

    Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker Series®, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is know throughout the galaxy. While he has defeated his sha...

  • Berserker Prime

    Berserker - 13


    Master storyteller Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker series, detailing humanity's war with the dreaded Juggernaut-like machines programmed to destroy all life in the galaxy.
    In the Twin World planets, Prairie and Timber, Plenipotentiary ...

  • Rogue Berserker

    Berserker - 14

    Harry Silver has already had a lifetime of trouble from ordinary Berserkers, the automated killing machines programmed an age ago to denude the galaxy of life. Now when his own family is kidnapped, he faces a deviant machine, a good fit for some or a...

  • Ardneh's Sword

    Empire of the East - 4

    It's been a thousand years since the time of Ardneh, the transcendant being that saved humanity from the vicious archdemon Orcus. It was a legndary battle between magic and technology that killed them both, but left behind tales of Ardneh's heroism a...

  • Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires

    Best-selling author Fred Saberhagen created three popular series: his Berserker stories and novels telling of the endless war of humans and their alien allies against the Berserkers, gigantic robot battleships programmed by an unknown extinct race to...

  • Empire of the East

    In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces now rule the land, keeping all humans under their oppressive thumbs. In the darkness of the shadows and whispered on the winds, there is talk of a rebellion. In the swamps, a small band has for...

  • Golden Reflections

    Mike Gabrieli's brother Tom has always had one talent: getting into trouble. But this time, Tom has disappeared after mysteriously gaining possession of a priceless Aztec artifact. Mike sets out to find Tom, never suspecting that he is about to be sh...

  • Blind Man's Blade

    Book of Swords

    Still warm from Vulcan's forge, the Smith distributes the Swords among the gods to begin the great Game of Swords. By gift and mischief the Swords come into the hands of human players. The Game begins. The gods' great Game of Swords, and with it the...

  • Wings Out of Shadow

    In Wings a timid, future-time historian with an interest in one of Earth's most horrific conflicts finds his knowledge strangely useful in the on-going war with Berserkers. Berserkers are automated war machines programmed by a long dead alien civiliz...

  • Second Triad

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    Lost Swords

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Fred Saberhagen has published 82 books.

Fred Saberhagen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wings Out of Shadow, was published in September 2016.

The first book by Fred Saberhagen, Berserker, was published in January 1967.

Yes. Fred Saberhagen has 7 series.
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