Fred Saberhagen dies
Jul. 5th, 2007 11:50 amAwwww.....sad =(
"One of the things that becomes harder as the world goes on is to draw the lines between human and not-human, between life and not-life. At one time in the past the lines were perfectly plain, or seemed to be, for Western man. Can they become invisible in the future? Fiction, and science fiction especially, is a good tool for asking such questions, and probably no good at all for answering them.
The berserkers know this much, at least, of life. That it must be destroyed..."
-Fred Saberhagen, intro to "Pressure" in The Book of Saberhagen,
printed by Daw in 1975
"One of the things that becomes harder as the world goes on is to draw the lines between human and not-human, between life and not-life. At one time in the past the lines were perfectly plain, or seemed to be, for Western man. Can they become invisible in the future? Fiction, and science fiction especially, is a good tool for asking such questions, and probably no good at all for answering them.
The berserkers know this much, at least, of life. That it must be destroyed..."
-Fred Saberhagen, intro to "Pressure" in The Book of Saberhagen,
printed by Daw in 1975