Berserker (Saberhagen)

Berserker is a series of 8 science-fiction novels of Fred Saberhagen, published in the United States between 1967 and 1979.

In France, this series of novels available is gathered in two volumes, with the editions “Atalante” (Nantes).

Synopsis

In the old Scandinavian legends, the word “berserker” designated the covered warrior of its fur of bear and which, the day before the battle, did not enter a furious fright not to be any more but one machine to be killed.

( See more precision on the etymology of the word to the article Berserk.)

In the series, the “Berserker” are the powerful ones and cold machines to be killed, come from the depths of space and time, programmed by mysterious originators for éradiquer unrelentingly any form of life in the galactic vastness. The novels tell this combat, seemingly unequal, of the living beings against these monsters of metal and electronic, and the discovery of their origin…

Certain volumes are made up, in fact, of multiple news of the author. Remarkably built and varied, they treat multiple facets of this interstellar war for survival, of its heroic actions, its treacheries and human ingeniousness deployed to be opposed to the alarming programming machines: to regard the life as a bad form and the éradiquer by any means in all dimensions of space and time (this war takes place indeed sometimes in other temporal dimensions and this good before Terminator!).

The news pacifist the (The peacemaker/The life to hasten 1964) appearing in the first volume (and appeared in France in 1966 in the review " galaxie"), we tells the despaired meeting thus, in space, of a gigantic vessel of death damaged and a man alone (and patient) in his tiny shuttle trying to convince the machine of the superiority of the life on the matter. By its construction, its concision, its worrying environment and its surprising final, it constitutes, for example, a true success in the kind.

Titles of the episodes

  • machines of dead (Berserkers, 1967)

  • Brother assassin (Brother Assassin, 1969)
  • the planet of Berserkers (Berserker' S Planet, 1975)
  • the smile of Berserkers (The Ultimate Enemy, 1979)
  • the man Berserker (Berserker man, 1979)
  • the throne Berserker (Berserker throne, 1985)
  • Léviathan, blue shade (Blue death, 1985)
  • the base Berser ker (Berserker bases, 1985)

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