Berserkers, Fred Saberhagen
Berserkers, Fred Saberhagen
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Berserkers
The Beginning

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Unabridged: 15 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/21/2011

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

There had been a battle, and the Berserker had met some terrible opponent, taking an awful wound. The cavity reached through level after level of machinery, deck after deck of armor, stopped only by the last inner defenses of the buried, unliving heart. The Berserker had survived, and crushed its enemy. When Hemphill saw the blasted cavity, he felt a shrinking fear, stunned by the realization of just what it means to fight the Berserker. Hemphill, his pistol ready, his right arm instinctively around Maria, had a bomb and two hundred feet of cord tied around his left arm when he recognized the Berserkers great scar for what it was. The damned thing had survived a level of attempted destruction that rendered the bomb under his arm only a pathetic toy.

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 Walt on June 28, 2013

Berserkers: The Beginning is a repackaging of much older short story collection set in Fred Saberhagen's Berserker universe, a setting where an ancient warfare between two forgotten races spawned the Berserkers-- once thought to have been autonomous killing machines designed to be "ultimate weapons"......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 08, 2016

I'm coming to the end of Alice Munro's "The Beggar Maid" and will be stuck with "War and Peace" if I don't start something else. This book collects the earliest of the Berserker stories. I think I may have read some of this already in an anthology the author collected called "Machines That Kill." He......more

Goodreads review by Clay on March 11, 2016

These short stories reminded me of Asimov's "I, Robot" stories because most of them have humans defeating the Berserker or its agents with some little trick of illogical reasoning, humanity or history that is unknown to the Berserker fleet. Asimov's robot stories were like solving logic puzzles agai......more

Goodreads review by DiscoSpacePanther on June 23, 2019

Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers: the Beginning is pulpy space opera of a style similar to E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith’s Skylark series, albeit published in the ‘60s and ‘70s when the New Wave of science fiction was rising to prominence. There are many intriguing elements to these stories that should feel familiar......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 01, 2022

Decades ago, Fred Saberhagen created a universe where humanity and a few other species are at war with a race of machines. Nobody knows too much about the machines except that they are programmed to destroy all life. The supposition is that they were created for an ancient war and that they eventual......more

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