Fred Saberhagen Reading Order

11 books (1964–2012)

Start with Best of Science Fiction: No. 10, the first of 11 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	Science Fiction Discoveries 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Machines That Kill 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	Berserker Base 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Barbarians 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	Prom Night 1999Buy 🇺🇸
9	Space Soldiers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mammoth Book of SF Wars 2012Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1967–2005)

Start with Berserker, the first of 17 books in the Berserker series.

#	Title
1	Berserker 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Brother Assassin / Brother Berserker 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	Berserker's Planet 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Berserker Man 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Ultimate Enemy 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Berserker Wars 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Berserker Base(With: Connie Willis,Larry Niven,Poul Anderson,Edward Bryant,Roger Zelazny,Stephen R. Donaldson) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blue Death 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Berserker Throne 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Berserker Attack 1987Buy 🇺🇸
11	Berserker Lies 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	Berserker Kill 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Berserker Fury 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	Shiva in Steel 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Berserker Prime 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Berserker's Star 2003Buy 🇺🇸
17	Rogue Berserker 2005Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1998–2002)

Start with The Face of Apollo, the first of 5 books in the Book Of The Gods series.

#	Title
1	The Face of Apollo 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ariadne's Web 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Arms of Hercules 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	God of the Golden Fleece 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Gods of Fire and Thunder 2002Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1986–1994)

Start with Woundhealer's Story, the first of 8 books in the Books Of Lost Swords series.

#	Title
1	Woundhealer's Story 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sightblinder's Story 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Farslayer's Story 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stonecutter's Story 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Coinspinner\'s Story 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mindsword's Story 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Wayspinner's Story 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Shieldbreaker's Story 1994Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1983–2012)

Start with The First Book of Swords, the first of 4 books in the Books Of Swords series.

#	Title
1	The First Book of Swords 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Second Book of Swords 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Third Book of Swords 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blind Man's Blade 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1964–1965)

Start with The Golden People and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Golden People 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Water of Thought 1965Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1975–2002)

Start with The Dracula Tape, the first of 10 books in the Dracula series.

#	Title
1	The Dracula Tape 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Holmes-Dracula File 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	An Old Friend of the Family 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Thorn 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dominion 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Matter of Taste 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Question of Time 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Seance for a Vampire 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Sharpness on the Neck 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Coldness in the Blood 2002Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1968–2006)

Start with The Broken Lands, the first of 4 books in the Empire Of The East series.

#	Title
1	The Broken Lands 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Mountains 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ardneh's World / Changeling Earth 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ardneh's Sword 2006Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1999–2002)

Start with The Arrival, the first of 5 books in the Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict series.

#	Title
1	The Arrival 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Augur's Teacher(By: Sherwood Smith) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heritage(By: Doranna Durgin) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Requiem for Boone(By: Debra Doyle,James D. McDonald) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Legacy(By: Glenn R. Sixbury) 2002Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1987–1988)

Start with Pyramids and read in order.

#	Title
1	Pyramids 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	After the Fact 1988Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1975–2019)

Start with The Book of Saberhagen, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Book of Saberhagen 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Berserkers The Early Tales 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Berserkers The Later Tales 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Saberhagen The Early Tales 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	Saberhagen The Vampire Tales 2019Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1976–2011)

Start with Specimens, the first of 19 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Specimens 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Veils of Azlaroc 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Love Conquers All 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Spadeful of Spacetime 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Earth Descended 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	Octagon 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Mask of the Sun 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	Coils(With: Roger Zelazny) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
9	Pawn To Infinity 1982Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Century Of Progress 1983Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Frankenstein Papers 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	The White Bull 1988Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Black Throne(With: Roger Zelazny) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
14	Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	An Armory of Swords 1995Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dancing Bears 1995Buy 🇺🇸
17	Merlin's Bones 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	Golden Reflections 2011Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (1974–2024)

Start with The Adventure of the Peerless Peer(By: Philip Jose Farmer), the first of 38 books in the The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes series.

#	Title
1	The Adventure of the Peerless Peer(By: Philip Jose Farmer) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	War of the Worlds(By: Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Giant Rat of Sumatra(By: Richard L. Boyer) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sherlock vs Dracula(By: Loren D. Estleman) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Stalwart Companions(By: H. Paul Jeffers) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes(By: Loren D. Estleman) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Ectoplasmic Man(By: Daniel Stashower) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Seventh Bullet(By: Daniel D. Victor) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Whitechapel Horrors(By: Edward B. Hanna) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
10	Seance for a Vampire 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac(By: Barrie Roberts) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Angel of the Opera(By: Sam Siciliano) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Titanic Tragedy(By: William Seil) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Star of India(By: Carole Buggé) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Haunting of Torre Abbey(By: Carole Buggé) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Man from Hell(By: Barrie Roberts) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Veiled Detective(By: David Stuart Davies) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Between the Thames and the Tiber(By: Ted Riccardi) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Web Weaver(By: Sam Siciliano) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Grimswell Curse(By: Sam Siciliano) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Devil's Promise(By: David Stuart Davies) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Albino's Treasure(By: Stuart Douglas) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Murder at Sorrow's Crown(By: Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Counterfeit Detective(By: Stuart Douglas) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Ripper Legacy(By: David Stuart Davies) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
26	The White Worm(By: Sam Siciliano) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(By: David Marcum) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Moonstone's Curse(By: Sam Siciliano) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Devil and the Four(By: Sam Siciliano) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Improbable Prisoner(By: Stuart Douglas) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Instrument of Death(By: David Stuart Davies) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Crusader's Curse(By: Stuart Douglas) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Martian Menace(By: Eric Brown) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Venerable Tiger(By: Sam Siciliano) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
35	Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden(By: Steven Savile) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
36	Revenge from the Grave(By: David Stuart Davies) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
37	Deathly Relics(By: Sam Siciliano) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Gentleman Burglar(By: Sam Siciliano) 2024Buy 🇺🇸