Fred Saberhagen
Fred Saberhagen
Fred Thomas Saberhagenwas an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F. novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
vampire trends way
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.
book character interesting
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
wife literature alarms
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
people fiction fantasy
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
stories type
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
writing age 1960s
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
kings book editors
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
reading people effort
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
art games puppets
I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
egypt want connections
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
people fiction
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
thinking ideas trying
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
thinking times-are-changing space
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
book long feelings
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.