im soooo not a geek. im thinking bret saberhagen died :( guess it was some other bloke.
tw On 7/5/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.comicmix.com/news/2007/07/02/in-memoriam-fred-saberhagen-1930-2007/ > > Recent News > Science Fiction/Fantasy Magazine News on Thu Jul 5, 2007 9:59AM > JOHN OSTRANDER: Fireworks on Thu Jul 5, 2007 7:07AM > John Rogers on the Cheney Administration on Wed Jul 4, 2007 3:59PM > Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:50PM by Andrew Wheeler > > In Memoriam: Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007) > American Science Fiction Writer, Creator of the Berserkers > Frederick Thomas Saberhagen is reported to have died at his home in > Albuquerque, NM on the afternoon of Friday, June 29th, after a > two-year battle with cancer. > > Fred Saberhagen was best known for the long series of novels and > stories about the implacable life-destroying thinking machines known > as the Bersekers; the series began with the collection Berserker > (1967) and ran for nearly two dozen books in the years since. The > Berserkers typified the central SFnal conflict of Humanity versus the > coldness of the universe, and Saberhagen rang dozens of changes on > that idea, always championing the impulse of life to go on and thrive > against all odds. He also wrote many other science fiction novels and > stories, beginning in 1961, when Galaxy published his debut story, > "Volume PAA-PYX." > > Saberhagen's fantasy work was centered around the long "Book of > Swords" series, which began as a trilogy in the early 1980s and > extended into a further eight-novel "Book of Lost Swords" sequence, a > connection to his earlier Empire of the East trilogy, and a new series > begun with 2006's Ardneh's Sword. Saberhagen was quoted at the time as > wanting to try a fantasy series with a large number of magical objects > -- the twelve swords -- since most such series had only one or two > powerful items. > > Saberhagen's horror novels were also notable, with his The Dracula > Tape (1975) being a then-modern, very atmospheric retelling of the > events of Bram Stoker's Dracula from the point-of-view of the Count, > in his own words. The series continued for another nine books, > including The Holmes-Dracula File (1978), in which Dracula encounters > Sherlock Holmes. > > > One other claim that Saberhagen had to fame was that, during his > 1967-1973 stint as an editor for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, he wrote > that reference work's definition of science fiction: "A literary genre > developed principally in the 20th Century, dealing with scientific > discovery or development that, whether set in the future, or the > fictitious present, or in the putative past, is superior to or simply > other than that known to exist." > > Saberhagen was always an underrated writer, even within the itself > underrated science fiction field; some of his novels, such as The > Black Throne (1990, written with Roger Zelazny), are as good as > anyone's. And the complex metaphor at the heart of Saberhagen's The > Veils of Azlaroc (1978) is also worthy of greater attention. > > His official website is here; his family will announce a memorial > service to be held later in the year and ask that any donations in > lieu of flowers be made to the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund, Doctors > Without Frontiers, Catholic Relief Services, or the John XXIII Church > in Albuqurque. > > ComicMix > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237843 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
