Berserkers

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FRED SABERHAGEN'S BERSERKERS
An annotated bibliography (arranged in chronological order of first publication). Plot summaries taken from dust jacket blurbs

Black type face: In my collection; Blue type face: Not in my collection

First published	Title	Publisher	Date	Contenyts/Synopsis
1967	Berserker	Ballantine	1967	Introduction by 3rd Historian "Without a Thought" ( "Fortress Ship") "Goodlife" "Patron of the Arts" "The Peacemaker" ( "The Life Hater" ) "Stone Place" "What T and I Did" "Mr. Jester" "Masque of the Red Shift" "Sign of the Wolf" "In the Temple of Mars" "The Face of the Deep"
1969	Brother Assassin	Tor	1997	Part I: Stone man Part II: The Winged Helmet Part III: Brother Berserker The Berserkers are the ultimate war machines, designed to roam the galaxy and eliminate all signs of life they find. Their next target: the planet Sirgol, the only spot in the universe where time travel is possible. Their strategy: to travel back to the past and kill Vincent Vincento, an early scientific genius whose death will cost mankind a hundred years' worth of science. Their adversary: Darron Odegard, an elite Time Operative whose orders are to protect Vincento. He faces the toughest assignment in the history of the galaxy, one that may cost him his life - no matter what the outcome.
1975	Berserker's Planet	Tor	1991	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 machines - weaponless, its star drive a ruin - managed to limp to a secret sanctuary on as planet called Hunter's World. Over the years since then a new cult has arisen there, a cult dedicated to Death as the only and ultimate Good.
1979	The Ultimate Enemy			"The Smile" "Pressure" ( "Berserker's Prey" ) "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron " "Inhuman Error" ( "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO TO PROVE IM HUMAN STOP") "Some Events at the Templar Radiant" "Starsong" "Smasher" "The Game" "Wings Out of Shadow"
1979	Berserker Man	Tor	1992	To defeat the ultimate weapon, you must become one. Once mankind feared the berserkers, killer machines determined to eradicate all life in the universe. But the Berserker Wars are over, and the threat of the sentient doomsday devices is over. Or is it? The berserkers are back, stronger and more unstoppable than before. And one strange child, half human and half machine, may be humanity's only hope - or its final destroyer.
1981	The Berserker Wars	Tor	1981	Introduction "Stone Place" "The Face of the Deep" "What T and I Did" "Mr. Jester" "The Winged Helmet" "Starsong" "Some Events at the Templar Radiant" "Wings Out of Shadow" "The Smile" "Metal Murderer" (a.k.a."Adventure of the Metal Murderer") "Patron of the Arts"
1981	Earth-descended	Tor	1981	It all began on Planet Earth, sometime in the Middle Pleistocene. A ground-running ape stood erect, gazed at the stars ... and wondered. Since that distant time and placewe humans have ranged far indeed, and changed much. Young Girl at an Open Half Door The Metal Murderer* Earthshade, The White Bull Calendars Wilderness Patron of the Arts* To Mark the Year on Azlaroc Victory Birthdays Recessional Where thy Treasure Is * Berserker story
1985	The Berserker's Throne	Tor	1985	The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assassinated, and Prince Harivarman, an unwilling exile, knows he will be next. Alone on the Radiant Templar, except for his servant, his girl friend and his newly-arrived wife, he discovers a deactivated berserker - an operable one. He also finds an ancient berserker code. Can it be the one that controls the berserker? And dare he unleash it?
1985	Berserker Base	Tor	1985	"Prisoner’s Base" - Fred Saberhagen "What Makes Us Human" - Stephen R. Donaldson "Friends Together" - Fred Saberhagen "With Friends Like This" - Connie Willis "The Founts of Sorrow" - Fred Saberhagen "Itself Surprised" - Roger Zelazny "The Great Secret" - Fred Saberhagen "Deathwomb" - Poul Anderson "Dangerous Dreams" - Fred Saberhagen "Pilots of the Twilight" - Edward Bryant ( "Crossing the Bar" - Fred Saberhagen "A Teardrop Falls" - Larry Niven "Berserker Base" - Fred Saberhagen
1985	Machines that Kill		1985	Includes Goodlife; and stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith, Carol Emshwiller, Roger Zelazny. Philip K. Dick, David Drake, Peter Phillips, Barry N. Malzberg, Richard Matheson, Robert Silverbrrrg, Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Keith Lumer and Alfred Bester.
1985	Berserker Blue Death	Tor	1985	Nils Domingo is a man with a mission. Vengeance at any cost. With one small ship, he sets out against the great berserker called Leviathan, tracking hrough the interstellar mists of the Milkpail Nebula. He is sure he is ready for anything. Bout nothing can prepare him for the astonisdhing discoveries that lie between him and Leviathan.
1987	Berserker Attack	Waldenbooks	1987	Same Introduction as Berserker "Masque of the Red Shift" (If Nov '65) "In the Temple of Mars" (If Apr '66) "Brother Berserker" (If Nov 1967) "Smasher" (Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug '78)
1991	Berserker Lies	Tor	1991	Same Introduction as Berserker "The Machinery of Lies" (first published in this collection) "Masque of the Red Shift" (If Nov '65) "In the Temple of Mars" (If Apr '66) "Brother Berserker" (If Nov 1967) "Smasher" (Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug '78)
1993	Berserker Kill	Tor	1995	Suddenly one berserker behaves differently, stealing an entire orbiting biological laboratory filled with human zygotes rather than simply destroying it. A pursuit party is off to the rescue, and nearly wiped out themselves in the process. The mystery is complicated by the existence of an AI program which has fallen in love with a human woman and copied her personality into a databank just prior to her death. But in order to consummate his desires, he'll have to find a way for both of them to acquire physical bodies
1997	Berserker Fury	Tor	1997	The berserkers have developed a new trick: Berserker units can pass for human-created androids. They're gambling on the advantage this gives them, and massing for an all-out attack on human-held space. But the humans have develioped a trick of their own: they've cracked the Berserkers' basic codesand know what their battle plans are.
1998	Berserkers: The Beginning	Baen	1998	Without a thought Goodlife Patron of the arts The peacemaker Stone place What T and I did Mr. Jester, Masque of the red shift Sign of the wolf In the temple of Mars The face of the deep The smile, Pressure Annihilastion of Angkor Apeiron Inhuman error Some events at the Templar Radiant Starsong Smasher The game, Wings out of shadow
1998	Shiva in Steel	Tor	1998	In a sector of the galaxy occupied by Earth-descended people, one Berserke r computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tacticsal strategy unlike anything the human opposition has seen before. Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction after which it was named, annihilates entire colonies with the help of its fiendish subordinates. Commander Claire Normandy struggles to prepare for Shiva's attacks, while Pilot Harry Silver realizes that he must deal with his own demons in order to help her. When the Berserkers approach, a decision is made to destroy the destroyer, whatever the cost. Neither side, however, is prepared for the incredible risks that emerge as the attack becomesd imminent. Can Normandy, Silver and their forces face the possibility that something wqholly unexpected but eerily familiar lies gnarled in the steel
2003	Berserker's Star	Tor	2003	Pilot Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy - and that notoriety does not always work in his favour. While he has defeated his share of Berserkers, he has also stolen a powerful weapon from the Space Force, making him a fugitive from the life he once knew. Looking for an adventure, and not one to turn down a lot of cash, Harryb agrees to bring a passenger aboard his ship, Lily, a woman who is on a quest to retrieve her husband. It won't be easy, as Lily's husband has joined a secretive religious cult on Maracaanda, an almost -planet lodged between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. While the landscape of Maracanda is treqcherous, so, too, may be the people around Harry Silver. As the search for Lily'ds husband deepens, Harry finds himdse, in the pzth of a machine whose only intent is to kill .
2003	Berserker Prime	Tor	2003	In the Twin World planets, Prairie and timber, Plenipotentiary Gregor is determined to serve his government. Even if it means executing innocent Huvean hostages, invaders from another planet. And even though Gregor's granddaughter, Luon, is in love with Reggie, a Huvean.But now the Berserkers are threatening the TGwin Worlds, crashing a scoutship, capturing the planets' president, and reprogramming this brain to suit their violent agenda. And only the Huveans, in a desperate reprieve, can save the Twin Worlds' populace from annihilation.
2004	Rogue Berserker	Baen	2004	Harry Silver had already had a lifetime of trouble from Berserkers. After losing his spaceship in a recent battle,with one of the death machines, he faced economic ruin. Then Winston Cheng, one olograph of a young woman and her child played over and over. The woman was Cheng's granddaughter who had been kidnapped from their space yacht by a Berserker. Silver thought the job was too dangerous, but then his own wife and daughter were kidnapped, possibly by the same Berserker. Before the mission was overr, Silver would find that his wildest suspicions fell far short of the truth.
2004	Berserker Man: Mega Book.	Baen	2004	Berserker's Planet, Berserker Throne, Brother Assassin, Berserker Man.
2005	Berserker Death: Mega Book.	Baen	2005	Berserker Wars, Berserker Blue Death, Berserker Kill. Baen 2004
	Short Stories			1963 Without a thought (Fortress Ship, If, Jan. 1963 1963 Goodlife (Worlds of Tomorrow, Dec. 1963 1964 The Peacemaker (The Life hater, If, Aug. 1964) 1965 What T and I did (If, April 1965) 1965 Stone Place (If, March 1965) 1965 Sign of the Wolf (If, May 1965) 1965 Patron of the Arts (If, Aug. 1965) 1965 Masque of the Red Shift (If, Nov. 1965) 1966 In the Temple of Mars (If, April 1966) 1967 Mr. Jester (If, Jan. 1966) 1966. Face of the Deep (If, Sept. 1966 1967 Pressure (Berserker's Prey, If, Jan. 1967) 1967 Stone Man (Worlds of Tomorrow, May 1967) 1969 T he Winged Helmet (If, Aug. 1967) 1967 Brother Berserker (If, November 1967 1968 Starsong (If Jan. 1968) 1974. Wings out of Shadow (If, March/April 1974) 1974 Inhuman Error (What do you want me to do to prove I'm human. Stop, Analog, Oct. 1974) 1975 The Annihilation of Angkor Aperion (Galaxy, Feb. 1975) 1977 The Game (Flying Buffalo's Favorite Magazine May 1977) 1977 The Smile (Algol, Summer 1977) 1978 Smasher (F & SF Magazine, Aug. 1978) 1979 Some Events at the Temple Radiant (Destinies, Aug. 1979) 1980 The Adventure of the Metal Murderer (Omni, Jan. 1980) 1985 Prisoner's Base (Berserker Base) 1985 Friends Together (Berserker Base) 1985 The Founts of Sorrow (Berserker Base) 1985 The Great Secret (Berserkr Base) 1985 Dangerous Dreams (Berserker Base) 1985 Crossing the Bar (Berserker Base) 1985 Berserker Base (Berserker Base) 1991 The Machinery of Lies (Berserker Lies) 1996 The Bad Machines (In The Williamson Effect. Tor, 1996) 2007 Servant of Death (with Jane Lindskold, in *Man vs Machine*, ed. Joh. Helfers/M. H. Greenberg. DAW 2007)