Berserker Man

FOUR COMPLETE NOVELS IN ONE
OF THE MOST POPULAR ADVENTURE
SERIES IN SCIENCE FICTION
ALL IN ONE HUGE MEGABOOK

For countless millennia the dreadful Berserker fleets have ranged across the galaxy in a relentless war against all things living. Their equally relentless opponent has been the human race, with its heritage and instinct of battle, facing the enemy of all life.

Here are four battles in the war between humans and the powerful death machines.

Berserkers Planet : A lone rebel, armed only with medieval weaponry, hasnt a chance against a mighty Berserkeror does he?

The Berserker Throne : An exiled prince plans to use a Berserker and return to powerbut can a mere human really control a Berserker?

Brother Assassin : The Berserkers reach back through time to change history and only one man has a prayer of stopping them.

Berserker Man : This time, the killer machines may succeed in eradicating humanity from the galaxyunless they can be stopped by a child who is half man and half machine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fred Saberhagen is the top-selling author of many popular science fiction and fantasy series. His Berserkers have menaced the universe for over 40 years. His Swords and Lost Swords stories have caught the imagination of many fantasy readers. Equally intriguing are Fred's exploits in the area of historical fantasy where figures such as Hitler and Lincoln, Daedalus and the pharaohs, populate his alternate worlds. On the border of history and fantasy Fred has created a unique picture of an old favorite, Dracula. More recent is the Book of the Gods series, a new telling of the ancient myths. Many of his works also appear in tape and e-book format. Before abandoning himself to imagination, he served in the US Air Force, worked as a civilian electronics technician, and wrote and edited articles on science and technology for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives and works with his wife, Joan Spicci, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Illustration by Jeff Miller
Cover design by Carol Russo Design

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

A Baen Books Megabook

First Megabook printing, October 2004

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Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saberhagen, Fred, 1930-

Berserker man / Fred Saberhagen.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7434-9878-X (hc)
1. Life on other planetsFiction. 2. Space warfareFiction. 3. RobotsFiction. I. Title.
PS3569.A215B463 2004
813'.54dc22
2004014350

ISBN: 0-7434-9878-X

Brother Assassin copyright 1969; Berserker Man copyright 1979; Berserker's Planet copyright 1975; The Berserker Throne copyright 1985; allby Fred Saberhagen.

Berserker is a registered trademark of Fred Saberhagen.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Baen Books by Fred Saberhagen

Berserker Man (Megabook)
Rogue Berserker (forthcoming)
Berserker Death (Megabook, forthcoming)

The Dracula Tape 
Vlad Tapes 

Pilgrim 

The Black Throne (with Roger Zelazny)

Author's Note

For more information about Fred Saberhagen
and this series, see:

www.berserker.com