Fred Saberhagen
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Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 – June 29, 2007<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and novels.
Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the famous Dracula is the main protagonist, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East series and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<ref name="sundeath">Template:Cite web</ref>
Biography
Saberhagen was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War while he was in his early twenties.<ref name=Independent>Template:Cite news</ref> Back in civilian life, Saberhagen worked as an electronics technician for the Motorola Corporation from 1958 to 1962, when he was around 30 years old.<ref name=Independent/>
It was while he was working for Motorola that Saberhagen started writing fiction seriously.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His first sale was to Galaxy Magazine, which published his short story "Volume PAA–PYX" in 1961.<ref name=Guardian>Template:Cite news</ref> "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 Encyclopædia Britannica as well as writing its article on science fiction.<ref name=Independent/> He then quit and took up writing full-time. In 1975, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He married fellow writer Joan Spicci in 1968. They had two sons and a daughter. On June 29, 2007, Saberhagen died of prostate cancer in Albuquerque.<ref name=Guardian/>
In his adult years, Fred Saberhagen was a practicing Catholic; indications of his faith appear from time to time in his writing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Works
References
Further reading
- Wilgus, Neal (1985). "Saberhagen's New Dracula: The Vampire as Hero". In Darrell Schweitzer (ed.), Discovering Modern Horror. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, pp. 92–98.
External links
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- 1977 article by Saberhagen on the Berserker series in Algol magazine
- 1980 article by Saberhagen on the Berserker series from The Great Science Fiction Series, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph Olander, Harper & Row 1980
- 1991 interview with Saberhagen in Starlog magazine
- 1997 interview with Saberhagen in Talebones magazine
- 2001 interview with Saberhagen Template:Webarchive at Crescent Blues
- 2004 interview with Saberhagen at Baen Books
- Obituary from the Albuquerque Tribune
- Fred Saberhagen's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
- 1930 births
- 2007 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American fantasy writers
- American male novelists
- American science fiction writers
- Novelists from Chicago
- Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiches
- Deaths from cancer in New Mexico
- Deaths from prostate cancer in the United States
- American people of Norwegian descent
- American male short story writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Catholics from New Mexico
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers