Master storyteller Fred Saberhagen continues his bestselling Berserker series, detailing humanity’s war with the dreaded juggernaut-like machines programmed to destroy all life in the galaxy.
On 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 own granddaughter, Luon, is in love with a Huvean. But now the Berserkers are threatening the Twin Worlds, 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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"didn't quite love this series as much as the swords series but it kept me coming back for more. torn between 3 and 4 stars. " — Alex (4 out of 5 stars)
"didn't quite love this series as much as the swords series but it kept me coming back for more. torn between 3 and 4 stars. "
“The Berserkers…attain a kind of perverse stature that makes them worthy stand-ins for the dark side of human nature.”
“The Berserker stories are war stories, but war stories in the tradition of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front.”
“Saberhagen’s Berserkers are not only a great literary invention, they also reflect our deep and real concerns about technology run amok.”
“Saberhagen has given SF one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series.”
“The action and suspense remain abundant as ever.”
“One of the most interesting series in modern SF.”
" Great premise about killer space ships trying to destroy mankind. "
" A great sci-fi book from my youth (8th or 9th grade, I think). Wouldn't mind re-reading it, if I still had a copy. "
" I loved these books in junior high and high school. I just re-read this one, and had fun reading it. "
" I loved these books in junior high. I just re-read this one, and quit liked it. Not great fiction but fun. "
" Interesting take. Wandering doomsday weapons from an older civilization confront man. I read these years ago...they span from the most serious to open comedy. "
" I read this when I was a teen. I enjoyed re-reading it and is a classic. "
" I read four of these in as many days while nursing a sprained ankle. Made the time go a lot faster. "
" This was a nice uplifting story of life versus simple robotic forces to destroy it. "
Fred Thomas Saberhagen (1930–2007), a native of Chicago, served with the US Air Force then worked as an electronics technician and as a science writer and editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He began writing science fiction for Galaxy in 1961. His first novel, The Golden People, was published in 1964. He is most renowned for the Berserker series of stories and novels.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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