Berserkers Planet

Name: Berserkers Planet
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Fred Saberhagen
ISBN: 9781455120147

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 05/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Five hundred years have passed since the combined fleets of humanity met and broke the berserker armada at Stone Place. But though the human victory was total, one of the killer machinesweaponless, its star drive a ruinmanaged to limp to a secret sanctuary on a planet called Hunters World. Over the years since then, a new cult has arisen there: a cult dedicated to Death as the only and ultimate Good. For Hunters World has become Berserkers Planet.

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 hotsake on December 31, 2024

This was an extended and improved version of a previous short story.......more

Goodreads review by Glen on May 22, 2024

The appeal of the series is beginning to pall. Maybe I've read too many too close together.......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on October 27, 2023

This third book is set on a world compromised by a damaged, nearly inactive berserker. Saberhagen shows once again that man's worst enemy is often himself. Someone trained in philosophy or psychology could probably lay out an interesting diagram about how death cults form around nearly anything, but......more

Goodreads review by Manny on April 12, 2010

I still haven't read any of the Hunger Games books, but it sounds like the formula may have been adapted from this thoroughly forgotten piece of SF trash. You have an elimination tournament where, I believe, an original field of 64 gladiators kill each other until only one is left. The contest is or......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 20, 2023

I couldn't get enough of the first two Berserker books, but this one is probably the weakest of the series so far. The concept is decent if not original: what if technology is enshrined with religious significance on a planet with primitive technological development. It's definitely been done, there......more