Fred Saberhagen
12 Quotations from Fred Saberhagen
| astrogational adj. | 1974 Berserker's Planet in Worlds of If June 54/1 Schoenberg’s eyes went shifting restlessly now to his astrogational chart. |
| beam weapon n. | 1966 Face of the Deep in Worlds of If Sept. 51/2 Why wasn’t it firing? As if to answer his thought the flare of a beam-weapon struck out from the launch. |
| clanker n. | 1965 Stone Place in Worlds of If Mar. ix. 36/1 The clankers don’t use guns. They just drift in, sneaking, or charge in a wave, and get at us hand-to-hand, if they can. Last wave we lost six men. |
| core n. | 2003 Berserker’s Star xiv. 208 Somehow, as if through a great magnifying lens, or a porthole looking into a wormhole, it provided a close but distorted look at the Core, the Galaxy’s great glowing heart, which through the normal paths of space, or even flight-space, would be thousands of light-years distant, a journey occupying standard months, if conditions obtaining along the route would allow it to be made at all. |
| deep space n. | 1965 Masque of the Red Shift in Worlds of If Nov. 39/1 Why, though, should any ship approach and hail him in deep space? |
| laser pistol n. | 1963 Goodlife in Worlds of Tomorrow Dec. 42/2 All passengers had put on emergency spacesuits when the unequal battle had begun; now he found himself an extra air tank, and some officer’s laser pistol, which he stuck in a loop of his suit’s belt. |
| planeteer n. | 1961 Planeteer in Galaxy Magazine Apr. 11/1 The twenty planeteers who were going down into atmosphere, plus two reserve crews, slouched in their seats and scribbled notes. |
| planetman n. | 1965 Stone Place in Worlds of If Mar. 13/2 ‘You protest?’ ‘I do.’ The Venerian looked around at his planetmen. ‘We all do.’ |
| planetquake n. | 1965 Masque of Red Shift in If Nov. iii. 41/2 You are an accident, like a planet-quake, like a pellet of dust hitting a ship near light-speed. |
| Solarian adj. | 1965 Stone Place in Worlds of If Mar. 21 That had been a genuine pleasure, seeing Johann given command of the Solarian fleet, watching the Venerians boil. |
| space flyer n. 1 | 1979 Some Events in the Templar Radiant in Destinies Aug.–Sept. 87 I see you have a private space flyer here. Do you use it to go out to the Radiant? |
| Venerian adj. | 1965 Stone Place in Worlds of If Mar. 13/2 A vertical crease appeared briefly in the High Commander’s forehead, and he looked for long thoughtful seconds at the Venerians before resuming his talk. But what else was there to do, except put Esteelers onto Venerian ships? |