Ghoulpool recorded it’s 20th death today with the dual news of Fred Saberhagen’s death on 6/29 (19th death) and Beverly Sills’ death on 7/2 (20th death). Of those 20 deaths, Scott A has scored on eight of them. Not too shabby. He is also now at 678 points, putting him on track to hit ~1200 points this season. I think we need an over/under bet on 1075. Any takers?
Since I don’t know anything about Fred Saberhagen, I can’t attempt to say anything witty. Oh sure, I could make fun of his name, but why kick a man when he’s dead? He’s been through enough this week without me making sophomoric puns at his expense.
From Wikipedia:
SF and fantasy writer Fred Saberhagen, born 1930, died June 29, 2007, at the age of 77. He began publishing in 1961 with short stories in Galaxy and If magazines, and published collection Berserker in 1967, first in a series about interstellar killing machines programmed to destroy all life. Saberhagen’s 60+ books also included the Empire of the East sequence, beginning with The Broken Lands (1968), the Dracula sequence, beginning with The Dracula Tape (1975), and two books co-written with Roger Zelazny, Coils (1981) and The Black Throne (1990). His last book was Ardneh’s Sword (Tor, 2006).
Fred Sausagehugger. Heh-heh-heh.
I couldn’t help myself.
Fred Saberhagen is a big name in SciFi circles. He’s written several renowned books, including the Book of Swords, a Dracula arc. He’s also credited with naming the “Berserker probes”, which are self-replicating space probes developed to populate the universe, and destroy all sentient life outside of their creator’s. Being a class A geek, I have several of his works in my collection.
Along with your pointy shoes and 10 sided dice collection.
Hey, I don’t have any pointy shoes…..