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Author:	Fred Saberhagen
Title:	Berserker
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Jan 1967
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	U5063
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	9.0 Rate
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ppint. 4th Nov 2020		fred saberhagen's berserker series (in order of first publication in book form): #1: ''berserker'' (1967) (this book) #2: ''brother assassin'' (1969), q.v. aka ''brother berserker'' (1969), q.v. #3: ''berserker's planet'' (1979), q.v. #4: ''berserker man'' (1979), q.v. (n.b. the above title was also used for omnibus edition of #2, #3, #4 & #8: see #0, below) #5: ''the ultimate enemy'' (1979), q.v. #6: ''the berserker wars'' (1981), q.v. (#6 overlaps significantly with #1, containing the novelette and three of the nine short stories from that) #7: ''berserker base'' (1985), q.v. (#7 is an anthology edited by fred saberhagen, interleaving seven new berserker stories by him with six by other authors reprinted from the main sf magazines 1983-5) #8: ''the berserker throne'' (1985), q.v. #9: ''berserker blue death'' (1985), q.v. #10: ''berserker lies'' (1991), q.v. (#10: only the novella, ''the machinery of lies'', is new and has not previously been collected) #11: ''berserker kill'' (1993), q.v. #12: ''berserker fury'' (1997), q.v. #13: ''shiva in steel'' (1998), q.v. #14: ''berserker star'' (2003), q.v. #15: ''berserkers prime'' (2004), q.v. #16: ''rogue berserker'' (2005), q.v. omnibus editions: #0: ''berserker man'' (omnibus of #2, #3, #4 & #8) (2004), q.v. book club sampler collection: #S: ''the berserker attack'' (1987) is a sampler reprint collection p/b produced for or by waldenbooks' otherworlds book club, containing two short stories, a novelette and a novella, all previously collected.



ppint. 4th Nov 2020		first ballantine books mmpb printing, first edition cover art by richard powers cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising it is possible that copies exist of a near-identical, simultaneous or near-simultaneous canadian printing of the first edition carcass sharing the merkin-printed covers, but i have seen neither this, nor reliable report of such; refer to printing history to check where the carcass ('book') of the copy you currently hold was printed and, should this be stated to be canada, please post here in a comment the wording of the declaration. thank-you; yours, ppint. almost completely reprint berserker series collection contents: introduction (in-series fiction) fred saberhagen (new to this collection) without a thought (short story) if vol.12 #3, 1/1963 as ''fortress ship'' goodlife (ss) worlds of tomorrow vol.1 #5, 12/1963 patron of the arts (ss) if vol.15 #8, 8/1965 the peacemaker (ss) if vol.14 #4, 8/1964 as ''the life hater'' stone place (novelette) if vol.15 #3, 3/1965 (cover story, art by richard mckenna) what t and i did (ss) if vol.15 #4, 4/1965 mr. jester (ss) if vol.15 #1, 1/1966 masque of the red shift (ss) if vol.15 #11, 11/1965 (cover story, art by gray morrow) sign of the wolf (ss) if vol.15 #5, 5/1965 in the temple of mars (ss) if vol.15 #6, 4/1966 the face of the deep (ss) if vol.16 #9, 9/1966



ppint. 2nd Feb 2024		one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Nov 2020		second penguin books printing fred saberhagen's berserker series #1: #1: ''berserker'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links, and contents of this collection, with credits. cover art by mike litherland (credited on back cover) cover design by red branch cover price £1.95, $4.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand 224pp. including titles, indica, incorrectly-paginated table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Nov 2020		penguin books first printing, first uk edition fred saberhagen's berserker series #1: #1: ''berserker'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links; also table of contents of this collection, with credits. cover art by franco grignani (credited) cover price 30p, south africa R0.75, australia $1.00, new zealand $1.00 224pp. including titles, indicia, inaccurate table-of-contents, etc, end pp. advertising ballantine books is miscredited in publishing history as ''ballantyne books'' (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker - Penguin - Paperback - UK - 0140026940 (1970)

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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker - Penguin - Paperback - UK - 0140026940 (1985)