Fred Saberhagen, R.I.P.

[yendi]

Well, fuck.

I first encountered Saberhagen's works (like a lot of folks my age) via the Swords books (including Empire of the East, which I found at a used bookstore and was amazed to discover told the backstory of that same world), and only encountered the Beserker and other works later on. His books were amongst my regular re-reads, and even if the Lost Swords series eventually grew a little stale for me, the original trilogy remains one of my favorite series of my teenage years.

Bonus Fact: The reason I adopted the Kansas City Royals as my AL team of choice in the early '80 (before switching to the Twins) was because pitcher Bret Saberhagen shared a surname with one of my favorite authors.

Comments

wtf... sigh

[coffeehouse.livejournal.com]

are we getting old?
is that what's going on?

it seems like every month another one of my "people" dies.

sigh.

[excursively.livejournal.com]

Oh, man.

And then you hit me with the old thing.

Damn. RIP, indeed.

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

Ouch. He was another of the first authors my father really got me into reading, not too long after he'd started me on Saberhagen's occasional co-author, Zelazny. That's another hole in the universe no one can fill. :(

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

Weird that I just picked up hardcover versions of the Swords books a few weeks ago for re-reading.. I'm starting to feel old

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Dang, another one gone.

[techempage.livejournal.com]

I think it was the Lost Swords series that I read.

I need to see if I can somehow find the time to do so again.

Or are they books of childhood? Ones that lose some of the magic they had in the re-reading?