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Berserker Wars

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I found this book on tape in a library by chance. What a great collection of stories around a horrible idea! Huge, automated killing machines, left over from an ancient war, are destroying life wherever they find it. It's fight or die.

After this book, I read several more of the Berserker series. Unfortunately, none of the characters and few of the interesting plots in this collection made into the later books.

The Berserker series in general is a fun series to read. None of the books by themselves are fantastic, but as a series, they are worth a read.

This is what the series is all about. Snapshots of the battle against the machine, a story here, a story from there. A mixture of times and places. A must read for fans.

This is the only berserker book that I have read, and I think it is the best work of science fiction that I have laid my hand on. "The Jester" is easily worth reading the entire book for.

"Life and Death in dreadful conflict stove..."

It happened long ago and far away - perhaps in another close by. Two war-maddened races fought to the death, and though they both are gone, their legacy abides: the terrible weapons they unleashed on each other and could not control - the berserkers. Robots programmed for one purpose only: to seek out and destroy all life. The death machines have harried their way across our galaxy. Now they have come for us.

Here is the essence of the Berserker Saga in a single volume:

THE BERSERKER WARS

Berserker Wars has been reprinted as part of an omnibus from Baen, Berserker Death, as well as in previous versions, and you will in fact find all the contents online there, just not under Berserker Wars.

Originall the second collection of Berserker Stories put together, if you have read later books and the earlier ones, you may have come across them before.

Still, as usual, the Berserker stories are worth reading, and this volume includes 3 of the top handful of Berserker tales.

Berserker Wars : Stone Place - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : The Face of the Deep - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : What T and I Did - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Mr. Jester - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : The Winged Helmet - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Starsong - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Some Events at the Templar Radiant - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Wings Out of Shadow - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : The Smile - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Metal Murderer - Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Wars : Patron of the Arts - Fred Saberhagen

High Command faction Berserker fleet action decision.

4 out of 5


Hypermass falling engagement rescue.

3.5 out of 5


Facing prison brain surgery.

3 out of 5


Levity defense exile return politics.

4 out of 5


Time Ops again has a protection from Berseker job to do, this time with a barbarian Chieftain.

3.5 out of 5


Even though human brains are really nifty, still won't help that old underworld lookback tragedy.

4.5 out of 5


Berserker recreation interrogation history.

3 out of 5


Dream and persona Berserker strategies.

3.5 out of 5


Berserker Tyrant artwork.

3 out of 5


Berserker past game.

3 out of 5


Berserker no critic, more of a collector.

3.5 out of 5

It happened long ago, in a galaxy far away, perhaps in this one perhaps in another close by. This is the essence of the berserker wars. It is apity that such a great word as berserk is used in the title of such a ridiculous book. How I stumbled upon this book I know not, but I must have been cursed to find it. I have tried to get rid of it, but it keeps returning. With it's ridiculous attempts at being some grand story. Having said that, it is quite funny, and the prose in the winged helmet, is heart wrenching

We have a copy of Berserker Wars in our college lending library at Yale. Some fool left it there. I know he was a fool because Berserker Wars is the worst book I've ever seen, and anyone who really read it is a nut. I'm not sure if the story's really true like the cover says. If it is true, we're all in for a lot of trouble. The illustrations, however, are good for a taking the mickey.