Fred Saberhagen

There had been a battle. The berserker had met some terrible opponent, and had taken a terrible wound.

In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces now rule the land, keeping all humans under their oppressive thumbs....

For a game, the gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession....

Long, long ago, the Gods forged Twelve Swords of Power, each with a unique and deadly quality....

Tom Scheffler knew that this great-uncle, Montgomery Chapel, had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artifacts....

n the reign of Minos, King of the Cretans, the gods gave proof of their existence: a bull-headed man accompanied by his bronzen servitor strode forth from Neptune's realm....

In post-Arthurian England, 10-year old Amby and the troupe of traveling players he belongs to are on the run from a conqueror....

In a world where zero population growth is strictly enforced and sexual permissiveness is the chief means of control, a young woman's decision to bear her third child makes her a target....

Mark and Ben travel deep into the Blue Temple's hidden horde of treasures in an attempt to recover gold and Swords for Sir Andrew....

Magistrate Wen Chang, famed for his investigative powers, and his young physician assistant, Kasimir, set out to recover Stonecutter and return the stolen Sword to its rightful owner, Prince Mark....

Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams....

The never-before-told story behind the legend of Count Dracula....

The Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come....

In a sector of the Galaxy occupied by Earth-descended people, one Berserker computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tactical strategy unlike anything seen before....

World-famous “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes faces a terrible crisis: a ring of criminal masterminds has threatened to loose thousands of plague-infected rats into the streets of London....

Before George Lucas's Death Star, before Star Trek's Doomsday Machine, came the Berserkers, intelligent, space-faring killing machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all life....

Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life to watch men scramble. But they had forged too well: The Swords could kill the gods themselves....

Returning to the milieu of his Swords trilogy, Saberhagen offers a new scenario....

Prince Murat of Culm possesses Coinspinner, the Sword of Chance which brings untold good fortune to its owner....

Long, long ago, two alien races fought a war of extinction. All that is left of either of them are the berserkers: vast, thinking, spacefaring, killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things....