Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007) was an American author of sci-fi/fantasy and best known for his Berserker series. His well known series include the Dracula series and the Book of Swords series. Prior to becoming a novelist, Saberhagen served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and worked as an technician for Motorola.

Fred Saberhagen sold his first short story to Galaxy Magazine in 1961, which was titled Volume PAA-PYX. His first novel was The Golden People, which was published in 1964. Below is a list of Fred Saberhagen’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Berserker Books

Berserker (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brother Assassin / Brother Berserker (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker's Planet (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Man (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ultimate Enemy (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Berserker Wars (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Base (With: Connie Willis,Larry Niven,Poul Anderson,Edward Bryant,Roger Zelazny,Stephen R. Donaldson) (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Berserker Throne (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blue Death (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Berserker Attack (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Lies (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Kill (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Fury (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shiva in Steel (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Prime (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker's Star (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rogue Berserker (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Dracula Books

The Dracula Tape (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Holmes-Dracula File (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Old Friend of the Family (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thorn (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dominion (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Matter of Taste (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Question of Time (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seance for a Vampire (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sharpness on the Neck (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Coldness in the Blood (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Empire Of The East Books

The Broken Lands (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Mountains (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ardneh's World / Changeling Earth (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ardneh's Sword (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Books Of Swords Books

The First Book of Swords (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Second Book of Swords (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Third Book of Swords (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blind Man's Blade (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Books Of Lost Swords Books

Woundhealer's Story (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sightblinder's Story (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stonecutter's Story (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Farslayer's Story (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Coinspinner\'s Story (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mindsword's Story (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wayspinner's Story (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shieldbreaker's Story (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Book Of The Gods Books

The Face of Apollo (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ariadne's Web (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Arms of Hercules (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
God of the Golden Fleece (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gods of Fire and Thunder (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Boris Brazil Books

The Golden People (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Water of Thought (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Pilgrim, The Flying Dutchman Of Time Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Specimens (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Veils of Azlaroc (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love Conquers All (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Octagon (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Earth Descended (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Spadeful of Spacetime (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mask of the Sun (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Coils (With: Roger Zelazny) (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pawn To Infinity (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Century Of Progress (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Frankenstein Papers (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The White Bull (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Throne (With: Roger Zelazny) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Merlin's Bones (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dancing Bears (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Armory of Swords (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Golden Reflections (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Book of Saberhagen (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserkers The Early Tales (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserkers The Later Tales (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saberhagen The Early Tales (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saberhagen The Vampire Tales (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict Books

The Arrival (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Requiem for Boone (By: Debra Doyle) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gene Roddenberry's Earth (By: Debra Doyle) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Augur's Teacher (By: Sherwood Smith) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heritage (By: Doranna Durgin) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Legacy (By: Glenn R. Sixbury) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Sherlock Holmes Gaslight Books

(with Lawrence C. Connolly, J.R. Campbell, Tony Richards, Paul Kane, Stephen Volk, Kevin Cockle, Jeff Campbell, Charles Prepolec, Tom English, Simon K. Unsworth)

Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes (By: Charles Prepolec) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gaslight Ghouls: Uneasy Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Monsters and Madmen (By: J.R. Campbell) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books

The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (By: Philip Jose Farmer) (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds (By: Manly Wade Wellman) (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War of the Worlds (By: Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman) (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (By: Richard L. Boyer) (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sherlock vs Dracula (By: Loren D. Estleman) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stalwart Companions (By: H. Paul Jeffers) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions (By: H. Paul Jeffers) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (By: Loren D. Estleman) (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ectoplasmic Man (By: Daniel Stashower) (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Whitechapel Horrors (By: Edward B. Hanna) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Seventh Bullet (By: Daniel D. Victor) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seance for a Vampire (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Angel of the Opera (By: Sam Siciliano) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Titanic Tragedy (By: William Seil) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Star of India (By: Carole Buggé) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scroll of the Dead (By: David Stuart Davies) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead (By: David Stuart Davies) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man from Hell (By: Barrie Roberts) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By: Carole Buggé) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Detective (By: David Stuart Davies) (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Veiled Detective (By: David Stuart Davies) (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Between the Thames and the Tiber: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (By: Ted Riccardi) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Web Weaver (By: Sam Siciliano) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Grimswell Curse (By: Sam Siciliano) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Promise (By: David Stuart Davies) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Promise (By: David Stuart Davies) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Albino's Treasure (By: Stuart Douglas) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The White Worm (By: Sam Siciliano) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ripper Legacy (By: David Stuart Davies) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ripper Legacy (By: David Stuart Davies) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder at Sorrow's Crown (By: Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Counterfeit Detective (By: Stuart Douglas) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Moonstone's Curse (By: Sam Siciliano) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (By: David Marcum) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Improbable Prisoner (By: Stuart Douglas) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil and the Four (By: Sam Siciliano) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Instrument of Death (By: David Stuart Davies) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1: 1881-1891 (By: David Marcum,Jim French) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Martian Menace (By: Eric Brown) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Venerable Tiger (By: Sam Siciliano) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crusader's Curse (By: Stuart Douglas) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden (By: Steven Savile) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Best of Science Fiction: No. 10(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Discoveries(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Machines That Kill(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Berserker Base(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Barbarians(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prom Night(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Soldiers(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: Coils and The Black Throne were co-authored by Roger Zelazny. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a novelization of the film of the same name and co-authored by James V. Hart. Changeling Earth was revised under the title Ardneh’s World. The Arrival is part of the Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict multi-author series.

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