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Incidentally lampooning Asimov's laws of robotics, the story champions the cause of man over machine with its focus on certain values such as determination dreadnought and scout-ship captains don't give up even in the face of inevitable death and valor cadet Dirigo sacrifices his life saving his friends. The heroes are larger than life, the robotic enemies implacable in their evil. The large supporting cast includes Gregor's granddaughter, Luon, and a Twin Worlds "hostage" from the Huvean nobility, who pursue a Romeo-and-Juliet romance.

The shifts from the big picture to the individual view of the many space battles enrich an otherwise familiar plot that lumbers to a predictable conclusion. Still, this is a dependable read for fans of Saberhagen or space opera, as long as they don't examine too many details of the science, plot, setting or characters. And then come the Berserkers, and the Huevans suddenly become a very secondary problem. This time in his long-running saga, Saberhagen shows the Berserkers' kidnapping of humans and reprogramming of them into "goodlife" --that is, as collaborators --from the inside, and he makes the collaborators more understandable and the Berserkers even more terrifying than they have ever been.

Meanwhile, the Huevans are revealed as the key to saving the Twin Worlds and get a reprieve. But will that reprieve and the Huevans' bloody self-sacrifice come in time? Character development is fuller than in some recent Berserker novels, while the action and suspense remain abundant as ever. Enough aspects of both the Berserkers and their human foes remain to be delineated to keep the series going for as long as Saberhagen wishes, which will probably not be as long as most dedicated readers would like.

See all Product description. Kindle Edition File Size: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 2 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The inhabitants of the twin planets Prairie and Timber feel euphoric having defeated the Huvean invasion. However, as Plenitpotenary Gregor prepares to have the Huvean prisoners executed over the objection of his granddaughter Luon who loves a Huvean, the Berserkers invade the twin-planets. The Twins do not know much about these robots except that they are ancient construct killing machines.

Ironically, only the Huvean might be able to stop the raiders, but they are prisoners with death awaiting them. Will the Plenitpotenary negotiate life for life or will he remain stubborn in face of the Berserker assault that means with no help certain Twin pandemic genocide? Fans of the Berserker series will enjoy this solid but typical ninth book.

The story line is fast-paced and filled with plenty of action and the usual Cecil DeMille-size cast. Though the valiant good guys without thought are willing to die for the Twin-Huvean cause, the Berserker robots are as malevolent as ever.

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An interesting underlying theme throughout the plot is Fred Saberhagan's Laws of Robotics: Though quite predictable as a normal Berserker entry, this still remains a prime space opera. Having grown up reading both Saberhagen's Berserker series and Swords series I was excited to see that the Master had put out yet another Berserker novel.

That was where the excitement ended. This book is beyond bad. I forced myself to finish reading it, desperately hoping that some twist of plot would make the effort worthwhile. Overall, shallow and uninteresting.


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But it gets worse - there is one characters that is obviously supposed to be Saberhagen himself. Like the pro athlete that we watch achieve greatness then stay in the game past their prime and fall quickly below mediocrity before our eyes, I only wish that Mr Saberhagen had walked away from the keyboard years ago so that we could remember him going out with a bang, not this flat fizzle. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon.

May 19, - Published on Amazon. With the Berserkers, Fred Saberhagen tuned us into one of fantasy's great concepts. Other authors may have touched on it before he did, but with multiple short stories and novels, he brought the concept into focus. I subtract a star from my rating because I have read almost all the Berserker stories, and they now lack the freshness of originality. If this is your first Berserker adventure, I give it five stars. Long ago a race of intelligent aliens warred.

They programmed war machines with artificial intelligence, and one side of the war got carried away with its programming. To make things easy for the AI, the machines were sent into enemy territory with this simple order: The machines were successful. After carrying out their order against the enemy, they continued to carry it out against their creators.

Now the machines have found new life forms to destroy. It is, however, a prequel.