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
american-author article hire whether work
Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.
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.
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.
writing age 1960s
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
stories type
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
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.
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.
fun writing mystery
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
book effort humanity
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
years done forty
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
writing people advice
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
stories good-story
I have some good stories yet to tell.
determination two people
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
block writing people
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.