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Berserker's Planet Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1991

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Five hundred years have passed since humanity vanquished the Berserker armada. Yet in that struggle a lone Berserker survived. Now single human sacrifices will no longer satisfy this Berserker-god. It is time to offer up the whole human race.

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January 1, 1991
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978-0812509816
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (January 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 233 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812509811
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812509816
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches

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Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007) is widely published in many areas of speculative fiction. He is best known for his Berserker, Swords, and Dracula series. Less known are the myth-based fantasies Books of the Gods. Fred also authored a number of non-series fantasy and science fiction novels and a great number of short stories. For more information on Fred, visit his website: www.fredsaberhagen.com.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2022

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From the previous reviews, it appeared this was a collection of short stories related to an overall plot, with some stories having ongoing characters.

That is pretty accurate. The first half of th3 book are diverse stories, all set in the universe Saberhagen built. Starting around the middle, there is a series of stories that are more attached by recurring characters.

I enjoyed the writing style of Saberhagen; technical enough to feel like real science, but toned down to a manageable level. His real gift in this collection of stories is the variety of situations, and the various ways his humans act. Everyone is different, and there are moments of warrior ethos, and moments of intellectual interaction, as well as fear, cowardice, and betrayal. While Saberhagen has created a universe with an intesting premise and science, its all a backdrop for his exploration of humanity.

It was an enjoyable read. I will probably follow up with the rest of the collections of his Beserker short stories.

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Just what I was looking for.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2023

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On time and as described.

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Hillel Kaminsky

Going to re-read the entire series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2017

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The gargantuan, super-intelligent Berserker machines were created as a doomsday weapon countless years ago, by an unknown alien race during their fight against another species. No trace of either race remain, but the Berserkers are still at large with their primary mission intact; kill all life. Humans have expanded into the galaxy and must deal with the Berserkers or die.

I recently read a Berserker story written as a tribute by Larry Niven and wanted to return to their universe. I first read the Berserker stories about 40 years ago and loved them. They don’t hold up quite as well as I remember, but perhaps this is due to the lofty position they occupied in my memory. I don’t think anything could have matched what I “remembered.”

There are many other Berserker stories, (both full-length novels and short stories) and I’m looking forward to reading them once again.

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Kenneth Willard

It's an older piece but it's fun!

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I'm not a science fiction fan, but I picked this up on a whim and I really loved it. It isn't bogged down with the intricacies of creating a "universe," it just jumps into the story and keeps going from there. This is a fun book, and I sure can use gun stories these days.

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Very dissapointing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2016

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This series opener was a big disappointment for me. The story is disjointed and often forgets details from previous chapters and invents new ones only to forget them again in the next chapter. I had high hopes for this series based on other reviews, and I have enjoyed other novels that were originally a collection of short stories such as the incredible Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card. However, this collection fails to have any glue between it's chapters, and instead really feels like a collection of lose stories with just a general theme in common. In the Worthing Saga, Card creates an entire story within the story to use as a framing device for putting the shorts together and it works beautifully. This novel is just one short after another with nothing linking them. The universe within the novel is not at all consistent and I found that endlessly frustrating.

Why three stars? Because it IS a good concept, and at times some of the stories were interesting, but it's just not enough to earn more than a 'meh' review from me.

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Harcohen

Great stories from a great series by a great writer!

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I used to own a little blue paperback of this book. I believe it was an Ace edition. I just remember it had an exploding Berserker Death Star kind of ship on the cover, and some sleek fighter ships blasting away at it. While images like that come to mind when you read about the Berserkers, these stories offer so much more. Unlike most series, it's not really necessary to read the Berserker series in any particular order. You have recurring characters, but you don't lose anything by jumping in just anywhere. Berserker is a collection of stories that serves as a great introduction to Saberhagen's series. I read my copy to tatters and decided to buy the kindle edition so I can read and re-read it without worrying about the binding. Read Berserker, you wont be disappointed. I've enjoyed every book I've ever read by Saberhagen, from Berserkers, to Swords, to his Dracula series. He was one of the most creative writers in the field.

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Geoffrey Anderson

Way back when I was in high school, someone ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2016

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Way back when I was in high school, someone tossed me a well used copy of Saberhagen's "Berserker", and I tore through it in a day. Recently, I was reminded of the Berserker stories, so I bought the first book.

This is a collection of short stories all relating to the Human/Berserker wars. Berserkers were machines that an earlier civilization created to help them eradicate their mortal foes. Unfortunately, they created the ultimate killing machines, that soon eradicated all life in their known universe. Fast forward eons of time, and the Humans in their exploration of the universe run across the berserkers, who are still bent on eliminating life.

These stories are short, interesting, and in typical Fred Saberhagen fashion, well written. Very enjoyable, and worthy of the purchase. Off to book 2 now.

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Ed Rybicki

A wonderful return

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I started reading Berserker stories in collections and in magazines that I got second hand at a local store - and I was immediately assimilated. Seriously, the quality of the writing, the implacable hostility of the big killing machines and the characterisations just sucked me in - and that was 40-50 years ago.

Now I came back - and bought the collection I never had, and it was just as captivating as it was the first time around. Read it. It’s wonderful.

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Jai Dee Jim

So-so

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 25, 2017

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Some of the early stories here are very dated by modern standards, although the later ones in the collection are a bit more sophisticated. It must be said the Berserkers themselves don't strike me as especially living up to their reputation as, although they are described as being enormous vessels with thousands of years worth of tactical records to draw on, they can apparently be defeated by a roughly equal number of human warships - I was expecting colossal battle stations to swat fleets from the skies a la a Borg cube before being defeated by human ingenuity... On the strength of this I wouldn't obtain any more Berserker novels, unless I was going to get them for little or nothing.

robert

There's some ok stuff in here but a lot of it is farly dull and unremarkable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 20, 2017

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Not particularly outstanding. There's some ok stuff in here but a lot of it is farly dull and unremarkable, many of the pieces feel like they've been pulled from a much large anthology and that if you'd known the world and characters before you read them then they might be better, but mostly these are just some fairly random pieces of sci fi which don't stand ot for anything except having the berserkers in them.

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Fascinating collection of stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 28, 2017

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Through a sequence of encounters between humanity and the life-exterminating Beserkers with just a few key characters providing a thread of human continuity this collection explores how a seemingly simple directive of "destroy all life" can be complicated and thwarted. Enjoyable and still very readable, though a lot of the characters are thin and underdeveloped; this is very much focused on what and how, less so on who and why.

Robert Fabrin

An underrated Saberhagen classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 3, 2016

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A brilliantly clever novel with well-written fight scenes and believable character psychology. The first original Berserker novel ("Brother Assassin" being a trio of linked novellas), it is stylistically similar to Saberhagen's Boris Brazil novels. Readers familiar with his short story "Volume PAA-PYX" will also recognize the motif of a giant fraud perpetrated on a segment of the population. The only weakness of the novel is its akward (and somewhat sleazy) portrayal of female characters, which is fairly typical of the 70s.

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Thomas Hope

OK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 4, 2017

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A touch silly in places. This is a collection of linked short stories, and some are rather better than others. But I'll read the next one.

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