The Berserker Throne

I really like the Berserker series, and I enjoyed this novel. I would give it 3.5 stars, but chose not to round up. I liked how characters and events from earlier in the series get cameo roles in this novel, and that the Templar Radiant is re-visited. I am glad that the series has a mixture of style......more

A novel-length expansion of "Some Events at the Temple Radiant" from The Ultimate Enemy short story collection. That was one of the better stories in that collection, and this is a decent story, but it doesn't wow me in the way some of Saberhagen's best work does. To be fair, it does bring new eleme......more

A solid entry in the Berserker series. I generally prefer the short story collections in this series, but this novel is set on the Templar Radiant, one of the more interesting settings that Saberhagen created for this series. The plot revolves around a plot to assassinate the Empress of the Eight Wo......more

I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book focused less on military conflict and more on the inner lives of the characters. There was a plot twist at the end, which was gratifying, but the final resolution felt rushed, as it was crammed into a 5-page epilogue. More time could have been spent......more

Politics and survival, all on the boardgames of stratagem. An exiled Prince, an assassination of an Empress, the wheels grinding out the chain of ascension under the threat of assumed ancient berzerkers found in ruins on The Fortress Radian. A treaty too good to be true, but who actually possesses t......more