Berserker Fury
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3.8 • 12 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The Berserkers, a race of machines bent on destroying all organic life, have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. As a showdown with the Berserkers draws near, Spacer Sebastian Gift and his fellow crew members must be ready to battle. And if they fail, it will be the beginning of the end.
Action-adventure combine with psychological drama as Nifty Gift deals with guilt and his crew mate deals with revenge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The deadly struggle between the human Solarians and the berserkers, robot war machines dedicated to the extermination of organic life, continues in this disappointing entry in Saberhagen's far-future saga of interstellar warfare (Berserker Kill, etc.). Saberhagen interweaves several plot lines here: the cowardice, attempted treason and eventual redemption of Spacer Nifty Gift; the adventures of photographer Jory Yokosuka as she sees combat and uncovers berserker spies; the quest of Spacer Traskeluk, using the exotic weapons built into his body, to wreak vengeance upon Gift; a climactic space battle of human vs. berserker over outpost Fifty-Fifty, which reads like the Battle of Midway transferred directly, even simplistically, into outer space. The Berserker saga, now more than 30 years old, created one of the seminal concepts of military SF, but this volume, marred by flat writing and lackluster characters, is far from state-of-the-art in that genre. Nor is it representative of Saberhagen's best work, which includes his Dracula saga and superior independent works like Dancing Bears.
Customer Reviews
Clever plot device
Well, the other review here inspired me to buy it. I have always enjoyed the berserkers and I like WWII movies, so this should be entertaining.
Berserker Fury
I bought this as I had read one or two of Berserker related stories
a number of years ago and enjoyed the basic storylines and underlying Berserker concept.
I won't be buying any of the author's work again.
Simply put Berserker Fury is nothing more than a very, very, bad rewrite (theft might be a better description) of the story of the Battle Of Midway.
I can't believe any author could or would stoop so low.