Title: Mr. Jester

Title: Mr. Jester Title Record # 54127
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1966-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English

Synopsis: A man expelled from a planet for excessive levity gains control over a gigantic war machine capable of destroying the planet.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1969^ⓘTranslated by Paul Alpérine	French	Monsieur Plaisantin
1986^ⓘTranslated by Leonore Petz	German	Herr Narr
1991^ⓘTranslated by Maura Arduini	Italian	Mister burlone

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Finalists	1967 Hugo	Best Short Story

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
If, January 1966	1966-01-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Galaxy Publishing Corporation		$0.50^?$: US dollar	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	Morrow
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
Galaxie (2ème série), #59	1969-04-00	ed. Alain Dorémieux^?Alain Doremieux	OPTA		F3.00^?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	Philippe Druillet
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
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
The Berserker Wars	1981-12-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor / Pinnacle (Jim Baen Presents)	0-523-48520-4	$2.95^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
The Berserker Wars	1982-08-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor / Pinnacle (Jim Baen Presents)	0-523-48520-4	$2.95^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
L'assassin Berserker	1982-09-00	Fred Saberhagen	Temps Futurs (Space Fiction)	2-86607-017-8	F55.00^?F: French frank	322	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
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
The Berserker Wars	1983-10-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor / Pinnacle	0-523-48520-4		399	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 Storchi
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
The Berserker Wars	1985-09-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-55320-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
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
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
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 Berserker Wars	1994-09-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-53643-6	$4.99^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
Berserkers: The Beginning	1998-07-00	Fred Saberhagen	Baen Books	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
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
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
Berserker Death	2005-02-00	Fred Saberhagen	Baen Books	0-7434-9886-0	$25.00^?$: US dollar	755	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Kurt Miller
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
Future Wars ... and Other Punchlines	2015-09-01	ed. Hank Davis	Baen Books	978-1-4767-8080-1	$14.00^?$: US dollar	340	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 Pollack
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
The Berserker Wars	date unknown	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-50101-2	$3.95^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
The Berserker Wars	date unknown	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-55312-8	$3.50^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi
The Berserker Wars	date unknown	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-55312-8	$3.50^?$: US dollar	399	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 Storchi

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