☆ Berserker ó Fred Saberhagen - Berserker, Berserker Long ago in a distant part of the galaxy two alien races met and fought a war of mutual extinction The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it the death machines the BERSERKERS Guided
- Title: Berserker
- Author: Fred Saberhagen
- ISBN: 9780441054954
- Page: 435
- Format: Paperback
☆ Berserker ó Fred Saberhagen, Berserker, Fred Saberhagen, Berserker Long ago in a distant part of the galaxy two alien races met and fought a war of mutual extinction The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it the death machines the BERSERKERS Guided by self aware computers intelligent than any human these world sized battlecraft carved a swath of death through the galaxy until they arrived at the outskirts of tLong ago in a distant pa ☆ Berserker ó Fred Saberhagen - Berserker, Berserker Long ago in a distant part of the galaxy two alien races met and fought a war of mutual extinction The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it the death machines the BERSERKERS Guided
- ☆ Berserker ó Fred Saberhagen435Fred Saberhagen
The chosen foe was no longer a red dot, but a great forbidding castle, tilted crazily, black against the stars.A somewhat conventional review The chronicles of Man s battle against the merciless Berserker machines starts here, with the first book in Saberhagen s Berserker series This is old school all the way Berserker actually consists of a number of related short stories strung together to tell the bigger story Much like Asimov s Foundation, I suppose I m not sure whether the sequels are put t [...]
Con questa decina di racconti, indipendenti fra loro ma con un chiaro filo conduttore e ben collegati da una voce fuoricampo credibile, Saberhagen inizia a dipingere un affresco spaziale degno della migliore fantascienza classica I racconti sono molto diversi fra loro si passa dalle descrizioni di tattica militare al fanatismo religioso, dalle lotte di potere alla sagace presa in giro della societ , dalla disillusa analisi di uomini piccoli piccoli alla celebrazione del grande leader carismatico [...]
Although I haven t read this book in decades, I remembered most of the stories pretty well They were originally published separately have graced many an anthology over the years I was curious to see how they d do as an audio book Pretty good, although I d recommend reading them separately for the best impact.The stories are tied together by a hokey alien reading minds over many years introducing each story Since the stories were separate, Saberhagen had to establish who the Berserkers were in ea [...]
3.0 to 3.5 stars This is the first of the Berserker books I have read and I was impressed by the background concept and the world created by Saberhagen The book is really a collection of loosely connected short stories describing different groups of humans battling the Berserker war machines Good, solid SF stories based on an outstanding concept.
Saberhagen s creation of a vast fleet of self replicating killer robotic ships has proven very influential over the years, different from the small war machines of Dick s Second Variety or the human controlled weapons of Van Vogt s Space Beagle The pure alien menace of the Berserkers makes for potent stories, though some of the sketches in this first volume are rather rough.I appreciate the way Saberhagen connects these shorter tales by frame story, which works better here than in many similar c [...]
During high school, I worked at a used bookstore, where I would often shelve the fantasy and science fiction, since it was a favorite of mine How many times I filed Saberhagen s books, I cannot say but the number is way up there Did I ever once consider reading Saberhagen Nope Was I curious Not really in fact, the opposite is true I saw the word Beserker and read a synopsis or two and dismissed it as dumb Who wants to read about big, life snuffing warships A decade and change later, I did, and l [...]
Fred Saberhagen wrote or co wrote a series of seventeen books, some of them anthologies of short stories, about the Berserkers These robotic killings machines arrive on the doorstep of human occupied space with the sole mission of destroying all intelligent life Berserker is the first of the novels and encompasses eleven short stories originally published from 1963 to 1966 in Worlds of If and Worlds of Tomorrow magazines.The series of stories is told by a narrator who reads the minds of the peop [...]
Interesting take Wandering doomsday weapons from an older civilization confront man I read these years agoey span from the most serious to open comedy.
Molto bello il tono generale della storia di questi pochi umani confinati nei sotterranei e della loro lotta indietro nel tempo contro queste macchine assassine iperintelligenti Un po meno i riferimenti alla storia umana, avrei preferito una astrazione pi spinta.Belle le tre storie nel passato e bellissimo il rapporto con la smemorata.
It has been a long time, since I enjoyed reading scifi This is a very interesting concept The characters are realistic I really can t understand, how can some people not like this book.
Without a Thought first appeared as Fortress Ship in Worlds of If, Jan 1963 Goodlife first appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, Dec 1963 Patron of the Arts first appeared in Worlds of If, Aug 1965 The Peacemaker first appeared as The Lifehater in Worlds of If, Aug 1964 Stone Place first appeared in Worlds of If, March 1965 What T and I Did first appeared in Worlds of If, April 1965 Mr Jester first appeared in Worlds of If, Jan 1966 Masque of the Red Shift first appeared in Worlds of If, Nov 1965 Sign [...]
Berserker 1967 tells the story of humanity s war with Death Star like automated killing machines called berserkers They are remnants of a war long forgotten between races long dead All that survives are the berserkers and their desire to eliminate all life Their methods are unique The berserkers were built to be unpredictable machines Essentially all of their planning and tactics and strategy rests on a random number generator buried deep in their cores Will they bombard a planet with rockets Wi [...]
The premise behind this book was a good one ancient spaceships guided by computers seek to end all life in the galaxy Mankind fights these machines and so the story begins.The reality is that this story is a non cohesive collection of short stories I m pretty sure a lot of time passes between the first story in the book and the last, but really there isn t any way to tell There are only a few stories that have the same characters in them so you mostly get to meet new characters in each and every [...]
A review of the audiobookNarrated by Aaron Lustig and Henry Strozier.Duration approximately 6.5 hoursI just stumbled upon Berserker, not realizing that there is an entire series of these books I m not terribly surprised, the structure of the first book lends itself to sequel after sequel.The premise of the book is that giant intelligent killing space machines are out to destroy all of the life they discover Why We are never told, but we assume that they are by products of a long ended war by a l [...]
Classic SF Crossing the span between Hard SF and Space Opera , Saberhagen postulates how artificial intelligence and the human mind differs in crucial aspects Also, the series of stories written during the height of the Cold War points out the dangers of cavalier approaches to weapons of mass destruction, as well as being one of the first speculations around von Neumanns theories around self replicating and self perpetuating machinery Although several aspects may seem dated in light of today s t [...]
I really enjoyed this read, a dark science fiction tale where machines called Berserkers are built by some unknown alien life to kill anything in its path Saberhagen compiles this tale with different short stories about the Berserker, much like Bradbury s Martian Chronicles, and does a fantastic job delivering the reader throughout space, meeting various characters along the way, as well as other villains Anyone who loves to read authentic science fiction stories from the long ago should grab th [...]
Gripping pulp fiction style short stories, eventually threaded together I like stuff that s intricate and pulls you into a world Escapist fantasy This was a great read I own this book, of course, because I intend to reread it countless times in the future It goes on my shelf with my most prized books Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragonlance Legends, Icewind Dale Trilogy, and the Dark Elf Trilogy.
This book has stuck with me long after the details have faded I read this at a young age I still think of AIs using decaying isotopes as random number generators randomly I still think about the guy beating a Berserker by teaching a monkey dog to beat the Turing test It s a world that lingers MK
Not particularly profound or inventive, but solidly written and good fun, as is typical for Saberhagen.
Welp I decided since this is a short story collection to go back and read the ones that I hadn t written reviews for So here they are.Without a ThoughtClearly the beginning of the Berserker concept, and a couple of things become immediately apparent One the Berseker in this incarnation is used as a sort of computerized enemy, the kind of stock villain in any thought experiment fiction that a science fiction writer might come up with to prove an interesting point A little bit like Cold Equations [...]
They are intelligent machines the size of a small moon, packed with enough weaponry to cauterize the surface of countless planets and destroy any defenders They bear the scars of countless battles, which they have always won They were built millennia ago by one alien empire to eradicate the other the doomsday weapons followed their programming to the letter and eliminated both They have one purpose the extermination of all life.And now they have come across the human civilization, spread across [...]
The following review is cross posted from They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their HeadsBerserker 1967 is a collection of linked stories that were first published in the pulp magazine Galaxy in the mid 1960s The stories common theme is the drama of humanity s galaxy spanning war with the titular machines, which are programmed to destroy all organic matter, especially human life Some of the force of this trope is felt in the fierce intelligence and ingenuity these self perpetuating machines emp [...]
Pretty classic science fiction Loosely themed short stories about the origins of the berserker wars that are fun and engaging.
OK A touch silly in places This is a collection of linked short stories, and some are rather better than others But I ll read the next one.
I orignially picked this book because 1 it was a library download, and therefore free 2 the snippet made it sound like it was well read and decently presented which it was not always a guaranteed with audiobooks, especially older ones 3 it looked long enough to keep me occupied for a while This book certainly delievered all of those things The bonus is that it is also quite interesting.This book is a collection of short narratives of the Berserker War , told by a psychic historian who reads mind [...]
It s not bad That s really the best I can offer, here This is one of those very old school, very formative chunks of sci fi that serves as a pillar to the genre rather than a shining edifice It details, in short, little bursts, the ongoing war between the berserkers and all living things an ancient creation designed to destroy, and everything, EVERYTHING that is alive And when I say short chunks, I mean it it paffs all about the universe, giving tiny slices of mankind s encounters with this anc [...]
I usually avoid short stories because it seems like by the time I m getting involved in the characters and plot the story is over I didn t realize Berserker was a collection of short stories when I bought it so I read it anyway Berserker isn t like other collections because, although widely varied, the stories revolve around the same setting Some stories are clever Others are humorous, satirical, or emotional There are a handful that are of the same specific story arc Taken as a whole, they all [...]
I listened to the Recorded Books audiobook version, well narrated by Aaron Lustig and Henry Strozier I liked the concept of the Berserkers themselves, machines invented by a long ago race of beings, who engaged in a war of mass extinction with another species, and only the machines were left, roaming the galaxy and programmed to seek out and kill living things, and with the ability to learn The Berserkers destroy many races of living beings before encountering humans Keeping in mind these storie [...]
Berserker is an old classic I ve been meaning to read for years and have finally gotten around to it And I m glad I did It s a collection of short stories loosely tied together about Death Star sized and like robot machines ships with one sole purpose to destroy any life they encounter anywhere they encounter it No one knows why these apparently ancient machines came from or why, but when hundreds of them appear in humanity s galaxy and start wiping out entire planets, humanity is forced to act [...]
This series of interrelated short stories focuses on how spacefaring humans would confront an implacable, robotic enemy set on destroying all life in the galaxy As I read the stories, I couldn t help thinking constantly about the original Star Trek Clearly, there was a synergy happening at the time mid to late 1960 s that makes much of the scifi of that era seem so similar In my mind, I kept hearing the music from the Doomsday Machine episode of ST TOS and hearing Shatner declaim the lines of th [...]