Started: July 18
Finished: July 26
Notes: I've read plenty of Saberhagen over the years, and enjoyed it, but it's always been fantasy. So, it'll be interesting to pop into his military science fiction series which was quite popular back in the day.
Mini review: Imagine a seemingly sentient, highly intelligent Death Star with only one goal: to destroy all life. That's a Berserker. And in this book, there are hundreds of them swarming our galaxy and at war with mankind in the future. This book is really a collection short stories that tie in well with one another, sometimes with familiar characters showing up in later tales. And while war is the backdrop for all these tales, the war itself isn't necessarily the subject matter of each story here. They all work quite well, written strongly and catching various glimpses of this war against demonic machines. The only story for which I did not care was the very last one, and even it had a fine ending.
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