Berserker Kill

Name: Berserker Kill
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Fred Saberhagen
ISBN: 9781470809195

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 13 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 09/21/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Long, long ago, two alien races fought a war of extinction. All that is left of either of them are the berserkers: vast, thinking, spacefaring, 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 being stored for retrieval and growth in a future colonization project. The ship contains millions of human livesbut why are they not destroying them?Will the human pursuers manage to find the missing lab, defeat the berserkers, and save the nascent lives? This is a major Berserker novelone of Saberhagens finestwith one hell of a surprise up its sleeve.

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 Jay on June 25, 2011

Berserker Kill (1993) by Fred Saberhagen. A captivating read for Berserker fans, with plenty of cool stuff revealed, especially at the end. [NO SPOILERS INCLUDED HERE!] However, I noticed redundancies cropping up occasionally in the narrative, which irritated me slightly. Additionally, the pace of t......more

Goodreads review by Jan on December 26, 2014

While not quite up to Saberhagen's standards, this was still a decent read. I kept feeling like I had the answer, but was still a little surprised at the end. The 300 year discontinuity between the first and second parts kind of left things lacking... almost as if it had originally been planned as t......more

Goodreads review by David on September 03, 2024

This is my second attempt at reading a Saberhagen Berserker book. As with my previous attempt, I find the authors writing style jarring, repetitive and frequently awkward. With that being said, I found this book marginally better than his other book (Berserker #1). This story had several good if unc......more

Goodreads review by E.R. on September 15, 2024

Really enjoyed this one. Actually got to meet a builder! (Hope that’s not a spoiler🫤). Anyhoo, I get a little annoyed when a 450 page book could have easily been written in half that space—and this one could have been, as it contains redundant information and a few unnecessary scenes, mostly involvi......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 14, 2022

Slow moving at times, predictable ending after reaching the midpoint of the book.......more