Our wars were behind us. Mankind was moving out from the planet of its birth. New worlds were settled, and with the wealth of the galaxy at hand, poverty was eliminated. Then out of a clear summer sky came the first berserker attack.

The final battles began – the battles between life and non-life, between the great killing machines we came to call berserkers and humanity, all that it was or ever held dear.

Some of those battles would be waged with lies...

Contents:

  • The Machinery of Lies
  • Masque of the Red Shift
  • In the Temple of Mars
  • Brother Berserker
  • Smasher
Published
1991
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Fred Saberhagen

Fred Thomas Saberhagen (1930–2007) was a Chicago-born American science fiction and fantasy fiction author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction stories. He also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires (including the famous Dracula) are the protagonists, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.