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In the cold reaches of space, the Berserkers--killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things--attack a floating laboratory, dumping stored human zygotes for a future colonization project--a billion potential lives--into an interstellar dust cloud. Three centuries later, humans pursuing Berserkers uncover what this deed has wrought.

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Library Journal Review

When an orbiting laboratory containing human germ plasm--the seeds of a future space colony--is seized by a berserker ship, a rescue fleet sets out in pursuit, knowing that it faces humanity's most formidable enemy. The latest in the author's popular berserker series features a cast of nonstereotypical characters as well as an unexpected conclusion. Though familiarity with earlier series titles is helpful, this fast-moving sf adventure works well on its own. A good additon to most sf collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Saberhagen's Berserker series chronicles the ongoing conflict between space-faring humanity and the doomsday war machines of the title, programmed to exterminate all life. Emerging from the depths of the Mavronari Nebula, a berserker ship takes human prisoners, steals a research station orbiting the nearby planetoid Imatra--which carries a billion stored human zygotes intended for a colonization effort--and heads back to its Mavronari hideout, leaving Imatrans mystified. Premier Dirac Sardou, believing his newlywed wife may still be aboard the station, assembles a makeshift force and pursues, never to be heard from again. Three centuries later, a new berserker attack demolishes Imatra; another human expedition gives chase, and what they find in the Mavronari dust cloud is stranger than anything they expected. Saberhagen breathes life into the often-arid soil of future-war SF with intriguing characters, neat plot twists, rousing action and no trace of the gung-ho macho posturing that marks much military science fiction. This smart, fast-moving story is edge-of-the-seat reading. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

The latest installment of one of the definitive military-sf sagas is likely to prove the one series fans have been waiting for. Nearly twice the length of any of its predecessors, it deals with a berserker that captures but does not destroy a shipload of human germ plasm and with humans who must understand this anomalous behavior in order to rescue the precious cargo. The greater length lets Saberhagen put us inside both berserker and human minds as never before. Saberhagen develops the story with his usual skillful prose, pacing, and characterization, producing a book that won't disappoint the audience he's amassed during his more-than-30-year career. ~--Roland Green

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Author Fred Saberhagen was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 18, 1930. Before writing full time, he served in the Air Force, worked as an electronics technician, and wrote and edited for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His first novel, The Golden People, was published in 1964. He has written science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and historical fantasy. The novel Berserker was published in 1967 and became the first book in his popular Berserker series. His company, Berserker Works, Ltd., has produced several computer games based on his characters. He died on June 29, 2007.

(Bowker Author Biography)