Berserker Series by Fred Saberhagen
Berserker #1
Berserker b-1
Fred Saberhagen
Saberhagen has given SF one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series. Created for a long-forgotten conflict, the berserkers are implacable, inimical killing machines that have been programmed to rebuild and redesign themselves. Their computer cunning and mechanical evolution present ever-greater challenges to humanity's scattered colonies. In this latest novel, Saberhagen draws on such epics of vengeance as The Searchers and Moby Dick. The loss of his family and of his left leg drive Niles Domingo to pursue the immense berserker known as Old Blue or Leviathan. Although he succeeds, his fanaticism transforms him into an inhuman acolyte of the godlike machine, a role that comes to define Domingo's purpose and existence. One of the best entries in the series.
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Berserker #1
Berserker (Collection)
Fred Saberhagen
Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met—and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battle craft carved a swath of death through the galaxy—until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man. These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy—and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things. This is Saberhagen’s classic book length collection of the first eleven Berserker stories. Meet Berserker hunter extraordinaire Johann Karlsen, his evil brother Felipe Nogara, The Third Historian of the Carmpan Race, gallant fighters of the killer machines and the deranged killer machine, Mr. Jester.
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Berserker #2
Brother Assassin
Fred Saberhagen
On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and sublte mode of
attack. Now, the time and place of the next attack has been
pinpointed--the berserkers will try to eliminate Vincent Vincento, an
early genius whose loss will cost mankind a hundred years of progress in
the physical sciences. Derron Odegard, one of the elite corps of Time
Operatives, has the toughest assignment in Sirgol's history--protect
Vincento at any cost.
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Berserker #5
The Ultimate Enemy
Fred Saberhagen
Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met - and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battle craft carved a swath of death through the galaxy - until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man.
These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy - and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things. With help from wherever they can find it, including World War I fighters and stomatopods, earth descended humans face the ultimate enemy of all life.
A Saberhagen classic book length collection of the nine Berserker stories: The Smile, Pressure, The Annihilation Of Angkor Apeiron, Inhuman Error, Some Events At The Templar Radiant, Starsong, Smasher, The Game, Wings Out Of Shadow.
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Berserker #6
Berserker Wars (Omnibus)
Fred Saberhagen
Omnibus of Three novels:
The Berserker Wars: Despatches, battles, setbacks, and victories in the millennium-long battle between humans and the killing machines, woven into a seeping saga, with heroes, cowards, villains and even a prankster sharing the stage in the desperate struggle for survival.
Berserker: Blue Death: The colony on Shubra had been annihilated by the great blue Berserker that men called Leviathan, and Niles Domingo's daughter was on that colony. Obsessed with the need for vengeance at any cost, he set out, tracking Leviathan through the mists of the Milkpail Nebula. But his pursuit would be neither simple nor straightforward, and he had no suspicion of the strange turn his quest was about to take.
Berserker Kill: Once again, a Berserker attacks-but instead of destroying all life in its path, this one steals an orbiting biological lab filled with human zygotes, then wipes out all pursuers. The Berserker's plan for using the lab is completely unknown-but the humans and a lonely Artificial Intelligence assigned to the case are certain that it can only be very bad news for the beleaguered human race.
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Berserker #7
The Berserker Throne
Fred Saberhagen
The Empress of the
Eight Worlds has been assassinated. Prince Harivarman, exiled on the
Templar Radiant, suspects that he will be the next victim. Help is
scarce: Anne Blenheim, the fortress' clear-eyed, fair Commander, is
favorably disposed toward the Prince, but her first responsibility is to
the Templar High Command. And Chen Shizuoka, a Templar recruit
sympathetic to Harivarman's cause, is being stalked by planetary
security forces. When Prince Harivarman discovers an operable
Berserker–one of the asteroid-sized, spacefaring war machines that once
destroyed their makers and all other life in their path–his first
instinct is to turn it in. But then he finds an ancient code that will
either allow him to control the dreaded machine or lead him–and everyone
else on the Templar Radiant–to certain death.
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Berserker #8
Berserker Blue Death
Fred Saberhagen
The great blue berserker's destruction of the human colony Shubra was swift and merciless.Niles Domingo's daughter lies among the dead.Niles
Domingo is a man with a mission: Vengeance at any cost. With one small
ship, he sets out against the great berserker called Leviathan, tracking
it through the interstellar mists of the Milkpail Nebula. He is sure he
is ready for anything. But nothing can prepare him for the astonishing
discoveries that lie between him and Leviathan.
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Berserker #10
Berserker Attack
Fred Saberhagen
Our wars were behind us. Earth had a unified government and for the
first time mankind was moving out from the planet of its birth. New
worlds were settled and with the wealth of the galaxy at hand, poverty
was eliminated. Then out of a clear summer sky came the first Berserker
attack.
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Berserker #12
Berserker Kill
Fred Saberhagen
Long, long ago...two alien races fought a war of extinction. All that is left of either of them are the Berserkers: vast, thinking, space-faring, killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things. For the first time in all of their history, they have met a life form that has a chance of stopping them. In the cold reaches of space, the Berserkers seize a floating laboratory full of human germ-plasm-stored for retrieval and growth in a future colonization project. But the ship contains millions of human lives. Why are the Berserkers not destroying them? And will the human pursuers manage to find the missing lab, defeat the Berserkers, and save the nascent lives? A major Berserker novel - one of Saberhagen's finest - with one hell of a surprise up its sleeve. In addition to the enormously popular Berserker series, Fred Saberhagen is the author of the bestselling Books of Swords and Lost Swords, as well as the chilling adventures (including A Question of Time) of the gentleman known as Dracula. He is one of the most popular writers in America today.
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Berserker #16
Berserker's Star
Fred Saberhagen
Berserker(r) Series, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the
terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot
Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy-and that notoriety
does not always work in his favor. While he has defeated his share of
Berserkers, he has also stolen a powerful weapon from the Space Force,
making him a fugitive from the life he once knew. Looking for an
adventure, and not one to turn down a lot of cash, Harry agrees to bring
a passenger aboard his ship, Lily, a woman who is on a quest to
retrieve her husband.It won't be easy, as Lily's husband has
joined a secretive religious cult on Maracanda, an almost-planet lodged
between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. While the landscape of
Maracanda is treacherous, so, too, may be the people around Harry
Silver. As the search for Lily's husband deepens, Harry finds
himself investigating a larger mystery and looking for missing person,
almost ending up one himself. And as always, there is the threat of
death from above, in the path of a machine whose only intent is to kill.
. . .
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Berserker #17
Berserker Prime
Fred Saberhagen
In the Twin World planets, Prairie and Timber, Plenipotentiary Gregor is
determined to serve his government. Even if it means executing innocent
Huvean hostages, invaders from another planet. And even though Gregor's
granddaughter, Luon, is in love with Reggie, a Huvean.But now
the Berserkers are threatening the Twin Worlds, crashing a scoutship,
capturing the planets' president, and reprogramming his brain to suit
their violent agenda. And only the Huveans, in a desperate reprieve, can
save the Twin Worlds' populace from annihilation.
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Berserker #18
Rogue Berserker
Fred Saberhagen
Berserkers are self-replicating killer machines, programmed by an ancient race to be the ultimate weapon of war. Something went wrong. The weapons now plagued the universe following a single mandate: kill all life, especially earth descended human life. Harry Silver, spaceman extraordinaire, has a well earned reputation as the galaxies most successful Berserker fighter. However, recently during a battle with Berserkers, he lost his beloved starship The Witch of Endor. Mr. Cheng, one of the universes wealthiest businessmen, is offering Harry the ship of his dreams, if Harry will undertake an almost certainly suicidal hostage rescue mission. Harry is reluctant, until he learns his wife and son may be among the hostages. On his mission, Harry encounters a number of humans and machines whose ethical programming has gone astray. Battles of wit and cunning accompany Harry’s struggles.
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