Fred Saberhagen Knihy

Volně navazující příběhy o válce lidí s vražednými stroji – pozůstatky civilizace, kterou zahubily její vlastní výtvory před milióny let a přetrvaly právě jen jejich válečné a inteligentní stroje – Berserkři…

This is the third in a series of eight titles to be published in the Berserker saga and involves members of an expedition getting into problems while hunting on "Berserker's Planet". The author has written on scientific topics for the "Encyclopaedia Britannica".

Bohové vytvořili dvanáct Mečů Moci, které pro své pobavení poskytli lidem. Všechny národy světa rozpoutaly válku, aby se těchto Mečů zmocnily. Kovář Vulkán si však dovolil malý žert: jeho Meče mají moc zabít i samotné bohy. Po odhalení Božího Vtipu se situace stává příliš vážnou. Bohové chtějí své Meče zpět – ale musejí být tváří v tvář Mečům Moci velmi opatrní… Vulkánův žert se pro bohy stává tragédií. Zatímco lidé se snaží využít Mečů ve svůj prospěch, bohové váhají, zda se jich jednou pro vždy nezbavit a Vulkán dokonce navrhuje, že by meče roztavil. Otázka zní, jestli není pozdě… Do vší vřavy se navíc začíná vměšovat Císař se svými tajemnými schopnostmi.

Tisíce let po válce tak strašlivé, že změnila většinu přírodních zákonů, se bohové a obři znovu procházejí po zemi a zahrávají si s životy lidí… ISBN 80-902106-5-5 je chybné

O králi Artušovi už psali mnozí, ale Fred Saberhagen v Merlinových kostech obdivuhodným způsobem připojil časovou smyčkou Camelot před Artušem i po něm s naší blízkou budoucností. Nedlouho po smrti krále Artuše se skupinka potulných herců prchajíc před zuřivým králem dostává na výběžek země, kde stojí podivná nedokončená tvrz. Tady mladý Amby - bystrý chlapec, herec s magickým nadáním - objevuje tajemství místa, ukrývajícího Merlinovy kosti a zaplétá se do smrtícího zápasu, který obrátí jeho život vzhůru nohama. Vypadá to, že se o ostatky velkého čaroděje zajímá mnoho lidí: krásná a nelítostná Morgana le Fay, Mordred, dychtící po moci, Elaine Brusenová, skeptická vědkyně z jednadvacátého století, Hakon, vůdce skupiny vikingů, a nejvíce ze všeho samotný Merlin!... celý text

As children they met on a beach out of space and time: Edgar Perry, Little Annie, and Edgar Allan Poe. Years later, Perry meets Annie again, grown up and beautiful--and in the real world. She warns him of danger, then flees for Europe on a mysterious black ship. Pursuing her, Perry lives the stories written by his alter ego, Edgar Allan Poe. Reissue.

Pinnacle of creation, or...? It all began on Planet Earth, sometime in the Middle Pleistocene. A ground-running ape stood erect, gazed at the stars...and wondered. Since that distant time and place we humans have ranged far indeed, and changed much - and the traveling and the changing have left us sundered. But no matter how new planets reshape our bodies and new gods reshape our souls, we, and we alone are the EARTH DESCENDED.

For countless millennia the dreadful Berserker fleets have ranged across the galaxies in a relentless war against all living things, and it has fallen to Man - one of the least evolved of intelligent species - to champion the cause of organic life. This book is the fourth in the Berserker series.

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 formed. Determined to regain their freedom, the rebellion, heavily outnumbered, plans to overthrow an army of thousands . . . with the help of one incredible weapon. It is only a legend, a story left over from the Old World before magic and the wizards came to the land. A weapon of technology. It is the mystical Elephant, and whoever masters it holds the key to freedom, or defeat. One young man, determined to avenge the death of his family, sets out to join the rebellion and find Elephant. What he discovers will change everything.

Crime makes strange partnerships, and none is stranger than that between Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula. But when Holmes must track down a ring of criminal masterminds infesting London with plague, he must team up with Dracula to bring them to justice.

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 more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a swath of death through the galaxy--until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man. These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy--and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things.

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 a Divine Jest has become all too serious. Now the gods want their swords back - but even gods must tread most carefully when faced with the Swords of Power...

Count Dracula tells his own version of his fateful journey to England in 1893, presenting a surprising revision to the well-known tale. Original.

This second novel in the Berserkers science fiction series is a space adventure in which the Berserkers use human history as a deadly weapon. They possess a new mode of attack in the form of a time weapon which destroys key figures of the past whose achievements ensured mankind's survival.

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 all of the Galactic Dictionary's definitions of (1) A deceitful, double-dealing evildoer .. . (4) A fierce elephant or stamodont that has been banished from the herd . . . (10) Having a peculiarly malevolent or unstable nature . . . (11) No longer loyal, affiliated, or recognized, and hence not governable or accountable . . . erring, apostate. - Galactic Dictionary of the Common TongueOrdinary Berserkers armed with weapons powerful enough to kill an entire planet were enough of a nightmare. What worse deviltry will a killing machine gone rogue attempt-and even if Silver can stop it, will he ever see his family alive again?

Long, long ago… two alien races fought a war of extinction. All that is left of either of them are the Berserkers: vast, thinking, space-faring, killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things. For the first time in all of their history, they have met a life form that has a chance of stopping them. In the cold reaches of space, the Berserkers seize a floating laboratory full of human germ-plasm—stored for retrieval and growth in a future colonization project. Why are the Berserkers not destroying them? And will the human pursuers manage to find the missing lab, defeat the Berserkers, and save the nascent lives? A major Berserker novel—one of Saberhagen’s finest—with one hell of a surprise up its sleeve.

Pilgrim, a traveler lost in time and space, whose only hope for returning home is to alter history, attempts to prevent the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

The terror began the very first night that Dan Post spent with his children in the old house on the hill. In his sleep he felt his identity dissolving, merging with human beings of the distant past, creatures who had somehow returned to life as they invaded his defenseless mind. At first Dan Post thought he was going mad. Then he discovered the truth about the house that he and his children lived in ... what waited for them at the end of the tunnel behind the basement wall ... And Dan Post could only wish that he was mad ... that the nightmare was only a dream that the horror was not inescapably real...

Tom Scheffler discovers that Pilgrim, a man feared by Tom's uncle, is returning on a ship that travels through space and time, and becomes involved in a confrontation with the monstrous gods of ancient Egypt

Jahrtausende nach einem Krieg, der so schrecklich war, dass er die Naturgesetze außer Kraft setzte, schreiten wieder Götter und Riesen auf der Erde einher und treiben ihr grausames Spiel mit dem Menschen. Mark, Ben und ihre Freunde machen sich auf die Suche nach den zwölf Schwertern der Macht, die die Menschheit retten können. Aber auf ihrem Weg lauert der Tod in vielerlei Gestalt...

Erleben Sie die wahre Geschichte des Vampirfürsten Dracula, der mehr als achtzig Jahre nach seinem vermeintlichen Tod in den Karpaten auf die berühmten Ereignisse und seine Verfolger blickt. Entdecken Sie seine Sicht auf die viktorianische Lebensart, Vorurteile gegen Vampire und seine Liebe zu Mina.

Fred Saberhagen, autore di numerosi libri di narrativa horror, sceneggiatore del film di F. Ford Coppola Bran Stoker's Dracula, ripercorre in questo volume il romanzo di Stoker fornendoci, per la prima volta, la versione dei fatti direttamente dalle parole del conte Dracula. Non più un essere immondo e crudele, ma un tragico eroe, che ama e si dispera fino a sfidare la morte in cerca della sua amata. Un romanzo nuovo, diverso, dove le capacità artistiche di Saberhagen rendono la nota storia un nuovo capolavoro della letteratura horror.