Berserker Prime, Fred Saberhagen
Berserker Prime, Fred Saberhagen
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Berserker Prime

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Master storyteller Fred Saberhagen continues his bestselling Berserker series, detailing humanity’s war with the dreaded juggernaut-like machines programmed to destroy all life in the galaxy.On 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 own granddaughter, Luon, is in love with a Huvean. But now the Berserkers are threatening the Twin Worlds, capturing the planets’ president and reprogramming his brain to suit their violent agenda. And only the Huveans, in a desperate reprieve, can save the Twin Worlds’ populace from annihilation.

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 John on April 30, 2007

Great premise about killer space ships trying to destroy mankind.......more


Quotes

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

“The Berserker stories are war stories, but war stories in the tradition of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front.” Baltimore Evening Sun

“Saberhagen’s Berserkers are not only a great literary invention, they also reflect our deep and real concerns about technology run amok.” Jack Williamson

“Saberhagen has given SF one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series.” Publishers Weekly

“The action and suspense remain abundant as ever.” Booklist

“One of the most interesting series in modern SF.” Science Fiction Chronicle