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The first three books are tightly connected, dealing with the West's struggle to bring down the Empire, in which Rolf plays a vital role. The fourth novel is set much later. The first three books were substantially re-written and re-issued as an omnibus edition Empire of the East in 1979.
Colin Greenland reviewed Empire of the East for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Nothing very original here but it is a well-organised yarn that trots along steadily through landscapes full of disdainful demons and enigmatic artifacts of power, not the least of them the legendary Elephant, a slumbering metal beast with '426th ARMORED DIVISION ...
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.
that “they” should manage our rights, the way we hire a professional to do our taxes; “they” should run the government, create policy, worry about whether democracy is up and running.
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 ...
Fred Saberhagen (1930–2007), author of the Empire of the East, The Swords and The Lost Swords series; Michelle Sagara, author of the Sundered series; Angie Sage, author of the Septimus Heap series; Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born 1950), author of the Tomoe Gozen series; R.A. Salvatore (born 1959), author of the Drizzt novels; Margit Sandemo ...