Title: Fortress Ship
Title Record # 72643
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1963-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English
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Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1963-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English
Synopsis: A human engaged in a conflict with an alien artificially intelligent war machine must find a way to conceal from the enemy that its ability to handicap his cognition is successful, or else it will attack when it knows that his ability to defend is impaired.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
If, January 1963 | 1963-01-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Digest Productions Corporation; New York | $0.35?$: US dollar |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Schelling | ||
The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF | 1964-00-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Simon & Schuster | $4.95?$: US dollar |
384 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Lawrence Ratzkin | ||
The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF | 1965-03-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Simon & Schuster / SFBC | $1.90?$: US dollar |
384 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Lawrence Ratzkin | ||
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F | 1965-05-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Dell | 9775 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Three Lions | |
9th Annual S-F | 1967-00-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Mayflower-Dell | 9775-8 | 5/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Hoot von Zitzewitz | |
Berserker | 1967-01-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ballantine Books | U5063 | $0.60?$: US dollar |
190 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Richard Powers | |
Men and Machines | 1968-09-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Meredith Press | $4.95?$: US dollar |
xii+ 240 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Barry Martin | ||
Men and Machines | 1970-00-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Award Books | A765N | $0.95?$: US dollar |
219 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | ||
The Best of Science Fiction 9 | 1970-00-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Mayflower | 0-583-11068-1 | 7/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | ||
Berserker | 1970-10-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Penguin Books | 0-14-002694-0 | £0.30?£: UK pound |
224 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Franco Grignani | |
Menschen und Maschinen | 1970-10-16 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch #181) | TTB181 | DM 2.60?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
167 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Stephan | |
Des hommes et des machines | 1973-00-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Science Fiction?Bibliotheque Marabout - Science Fiction #434) |
316 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Henri Lievens | |||
Galaxie (2ème série), #113 | 1973-10-00 | ed. Michel Demuth | OPTA | F4.00?F: French frank |
164 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Michel Desimon | ||
As máquinas da destruição | 1974-00-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #200) | 182 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Lima de Freitas | |||
Berserker | 1978-09-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05404-8 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
viii+ 243 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris | |
Berserker | 1979-09-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05404-8 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Berserker ! | 1980-00-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Librairie des Champs-Élysées?Librairie des Champs-Elysees (Le masque de l'avenir #2) |
2-7024-1086-3 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Enki Bilal | |||
Berserker | 1980-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05423-4 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Sirius, #56 | 1981-02-05 |
ed.
Borivoj Jurković?Borivoj Jurkovic Borivoj Jurkovich |
Vjesnik | Din 30?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar |
148 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
mag | Vicente Segrelles | ||
La guerre des Berserkers | 1982-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Temps Futurs (Space Fiction) | 2-86607-015-1 | F55.00?F: French frank |
247 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Manchu | |
Pawn to Infinity | 1982-06-00 | ed. Fred Saberhagen, Joan Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-65482-7 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
[8]+ 258 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | ||
Berserker | 1982-11-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05463-3 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Berserker | 1982-11-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05463-3 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
iv+ 243 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris | |
Histoires de la fin des temps | 1983-04-00 |
ed.
Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein |
Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3777) | 2-253-02580-1 | 445 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Cl. Gozlan | ||
Berserker | 1984-04-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05480-3 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Berserker | 1984-04-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05469-2 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
Berserker | 1984-04-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05469-2 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
iv+ 243 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Berserker | 1985-00-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Penguin Books | 0-14-002694-0 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
224 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Mike Litherland | |
Berserker | 1985-12-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05490-0 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
[8]+ 243 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris | |
Berserker | 1986-01-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction #3692) | 3-8118-3692-7 | DM 8.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris | |
Berserker | 1986-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05495-1 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology | 1986-09-00 | ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl | Bluejay Books | 0-312-94471-3 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
438 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Alan Gutierrez | |
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology | 1986-09-00 | ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl | Bluejay Books | 0-312-94472-1 | $10.95?$: US dollar |
438 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Alan Gutierrez | |
Berserker | 1988-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction #3855) | 3-8118-3855-5 | DM 8.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Lehr | |
Urania #1152 | 1991-05-05 | ed. Giuseppe Lippi | Mondadori | 1152 | Lit 4,500?Lit: Italian lira |
176 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Vicente Segrelles | |
Les machines de mort | 1991-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen | L'Atalante ( Bibliothèque de l'évasion?Bibliotheque de l'evasion ) |
2-905158-45-X | 313 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |||
The Great SF Stories #25 (1963) | 1992-07-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #885) | 0-88677-518-3 | $5.50?$: US dollar |
382 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Bob Layzell | |
Berserker | 1992-09-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05495-1 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
The Great SF Stories #25 (1963) | 1993-01-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg | DAW Books / SFBC | 05922 | $8.98?$: US dollar |
381 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Bob Layzell | |
Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1963 | 1995-09-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg | Mondadori (Classici Urania #222) | Lit 6,500?Lit: Italian lira |
330 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Marco Patrito | ||
Le grandi storie della fantascienza: 1963 | 1995-12-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg | Mondadori (I Libri di Urania #31) | 88-04-40838-3 | Lit 8,000?Lit: Italian lira |
330 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Marco Patrito | |
Berserkers: The Beginning | 1998-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Baen | 0-671-87884-0 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
377 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
omni | David Mattingly | |
Altair, February 2000 | 2000-02-00 | ed. Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson | Altair Publishing | A$9.95?A$: Australian dollar |
160 | A5?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines |
mag | Carol McLean-Carr | ||
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2000-07-18 | ed. Garyn G. Roberts | Prentice-Hall | 0-13-021280-6 | $47.00?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 1166 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | |
Les berserkers: Tome 1 | 2001-11-00 | Fred Saberhagen | L'Atalante (La Dentelle du Cygne) | 2-84172-193-0 | 885 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | Gess | ||
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2003-00-00 | ed. Garyn G. Roberts | Prentice-Hall | 0-13-021280-6 |
xviii+ 1166 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Frank R. Paul | ||
Berserker | 2003-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Thorndike Press | 0-7862-5485-8 | $28.95?$: US dollar |
329 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
Men and Machines | 2009-03-05 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-5499-7 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
256 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
Berserker | 2012-11-06 | Fred Saberhagen | JSS Literary Productions | 978-1-937422-22-6 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
Berserker | date unknown | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05462-5 | $2.25?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Berserker | date unknown | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05490-0 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
243 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Boris Vallejo | |
Men and Machines | date unknown | ed. Robert Silverberg | Hawthorn Books |
xii+ 240 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Barry Martin |