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The Empire of the East series is composed of four science fiction/fantasy novels by Fred Saberhagen.
Empire of the East is a novel by Fred Saberhagen published in 1979. [1] ... Empire of the East is a novel in which the East rules the West in the distant future. [2]
Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the famous Dracula is the main protagonist, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East series and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [3]
The Book of Swords series is also linked to the Empire of the East series, which is set in the same universe and presents the backstory to the series. [3] The first three works in the Empire of the East series predate the Book of Swords series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East book ...
Saberhagen depicts Dracula as the historical voivode Vlad Ţepeş (known as Drakulya, meaning "Dragon") who, in Saberhagen's stories, became a vampire after being assassinated. According to the character, he refused to die "by a transcendent act of will", but it is apparent that even he is uncertain how he really became a vampire.
20563 SF Fred Saberhagen Empire of the East; 20565 SF Barrington J. Bayley Empire of Two Worlds; 20571 SF Samuel R. Delany The Ballad of Beta-2 and Empire Star; 20664 SF Jerry Pournelle Endless Frontier, Volume I; 20670 SF Judith Merril (ed.) England Swings Sf: Stories of Speculative Fiction; 20724 SF Poul Anderson Ensign Flandry; 20730 SF ...
Saberhagen was an exceptional athlete, also playing shortstop and moonlighting as a basketball player. What convinced me of his future success was his ability to throw strikes whenever he needed to.
ARDNEH (Automatic Restoration Director – National Executive Headquarters), from the Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East series (1968 onward) Fess, an antique FCC-series computer that can be plugged into various bodies, in Christopher Stasheff's The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)