Berserker Lies

Name: Berserker Lies
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Fred Saberhagen
ISBN: 9781481569279

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Series: Berserker Series #1

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/21/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Our wars were behind us. Mankind was moving out from the planet of its birth. New worlds were settled, and with the wealth of the galaxy at hand, poverty was eliminated. Then out of a clear summer sky came the first berserker attack.The great battles began—between life and nonlife, between freethinking humanity and the preprogrammed killing machines we came to call berserkers. And some of those battles would be waged with lies.This collection of short stories continues the ongoing saga of the berserker wars with “The Machinery of Lies,” “Masque of the Red Shift,” “In the Temple of Mars,” “Brother Berserker,” and “Smasher.”

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.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

If you are a fan of the Berserker series this won't disappoint. Some stories are not very strong but overall Saberhagen manages to always find new ways of writing about the death machines and the human defenders. Moscarella/Machinia.ca......more

Goodreads review by Chris

The machinery of lies has an absolutely entertaining conclusion. Masque of the Red Death and Temple of Mars are fairly decent, straight-forward action stories. I have read Brother Berserker, before, and honestly it's bored me both times. The use of Foucault's pendulum, in the Brother story, is enter......more

Goodreads review by Travis

Fun collection of short stories dealing with mankind's war with those alien death machines, the Berserkers. Nice mix of classic war story elements and big sci-fi tropes. Not as classic as some series, but always a solid read. Read a lot of Sabrehagen in college and I always enjoyed his stuff. This seri......more

Quotes

“One of the best writers in the business.” Stephen R. Donaldson, New York Times bestselling author

“The Berserkers…attain a kind of perverse stature that makes them worthy stand-ins for the dark side of human nature.” New York Times

“I love the Berserker stories.” Science Fiction Reviews