Local sci-fi writer’s work headed to NIU
BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com December 6, 2011 6:42PM
Fred Saberhagen | submitted photo | Sun-Times
Updated: December 7, 2011 5:35PM
Twenty years before “The Terminator” unleashed the brutal and determined killer cyborg on the world, native Chicago sci-fi scribe Fred Saberhagen dreamed up a similar interstellar killing machine in his “Berserker” series of books.
Saberhagen’s books and papers are now headed to Northern Illinois University, a gift from his widow that will become a prominent part of the school’s science fiction collection.
Designated one of 11 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America depositories in 1979, NIU has thousands of science fiction books and magazines available for researchers.
Saberhagen’s works — which also include a Dracula series told from the vampire’s point of view — also may be on public display as part of an annual look at new acquisitions, said Lynne M. Thomas, NIU Libraries’ curator of Rare Books and Special Collections.
“If we do a display on killer robots, we’ll put some of the manuscripts from the Berseker series in the case,” she said. Kara Spak
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