Berserker: Blue Death

Name: Berserker: Blue Death
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Fred Saberhagen
ISBN: 9781441773159

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 07/07/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The great blue Berserkers destruction of the human colony Shubra was swift and merciless. And when it was over, Niles Domingos daughter lay among the dead. Now Niles is a man with a mission: vengeance at any cost. With one small ship, Niles 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 his vengeance.

About Fred Saberhagen

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan on April 15, 2023

Our local science fiction reading group decided to read some Berserker stories, and we each grabbed whichever title we could. So I got this one mostly at random. Fred Saberhagen created the Berserker world in the 1960s. They are military space operas about humanity struggling against the titular kill......more

Goodreads review by Pete on June 21, 2021

The leader of a small colony in the Milkpail nebula is on a vendetta against a Berserker know as Old Blue or Leviathan after his daugher is killed when their colony is destroyed. A wealthy man, he owns a sophisticated ship capable of navigating the nebula. He recruits a crew, including one of the my......more

Goodreads review by Clay on August 19, 2022

Sure, I can see the similarities with this and "Moby Dick", but that's really not the focus is for this story. This is a good human interest, human emotion, and human interaction story of love, duty, discovery and revenge as a father hunts down the machine that killed his world and his family, the c......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on June 04, 2023

"Call me Ishmael" indeed. I was so set to rate this book a 2 or 3 because it seemed to drag on, but it saved its self at the end. Damn you Saberhagen... not really damn you, but there's a twist and a hanger.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on February 02, 2020

Echoes of Moby Dick as Niles Domingo relentlessly hunts the mechanical monster that killed his family. But who's the real monster?......more