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Berserker's Star by Fred Saberhagen (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765304236
ISBN-139780765304230
eBay Product ID (ePID)2215313
Product Key Features
Book TitleBerserker's Star
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2003
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorFred Saberhagen
Book SeriesBerserker Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18.7 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-041016
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPraise for Fred Saberhagen's bestselling Berserker Series "Saberhagen has given science fiction one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker Series."- Publishers Weekly "The Berserkers, in their single-minded pursuit of their preprogrammed course of destruction, attain a kind of perverse stature that makes them worthy stand-ins for the dark side of human nature."- The 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 ."- The Baltimore Evening Sun "These homicidal robots manage to make Aliens look like wimps."- Science Fiction Age, Praise for Fred Saberhagen's bestselling Berserkerreg; Series "Saberhagen has given science fiction one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker Series."-Publishers Weekly "The Berserkers, in their single-minded pursuit of their preprogrammed course of destruction, attain a kind of perverse stature that makes them worthy stand-ins for the dark side of human nature."-The New York Times "The Berserker stories are war stories, but war stories in the tradition ofThe Red Badge of CourageandAll Quiet on the Western Front."-The Baltimore Evening Sun "These homicidal robots manage to make Aliens look like wimps."-Science Fiction Age
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisAcclaimed author Fred Saberhagen continues his widely popular and influential Berserker(r) Series, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy-and that notoriety does not always work in his favor. 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, Harry 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 Maracanda, an almost-planet lodged between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. While the landscape of Maracanda is treacherous, so, too, may be the people around Harry Silver. As the search for Lily's husband deepens, Harry finds himself investigating a larger mystery and looking for missing person, almost ending up one himself. And as always, there is the threat of death from above, in the path of a, cclaimed author Fred Saberhagen continues his widely popular and influential Berserker Series, a chronicle of war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy and that notoriety does not always work in his favor. 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, Harry agrees to bring a passenger aboard his ship. That passenger is Lily, a woman on a quest to rescue her husband. It won't be easy, as Lily's husband has joined a secretive religious cult on Maracanda, an almost-planet lodged between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. The landscape of Maracanda is treacherous, so too may be the people around Harry Silver. For as the search for Lily's husband widens, Harry finds himself investigating a deeper mystery. And as always, there is the threat of death from above, in the path of a machine whose only intent is to kill., Acclaimed author Fred Saberhagen continues his widely popular and influential Berserker(r) Series, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.A215B476 2003
