Title: Berserker's Planet
Title Record # 7212
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1975-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Series Number: 3
Language: English
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Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1975-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Series Number: 3
Language: English
Synopsis: A party of illegal big game hunters lands on a preindustrial human colony planet with a warrior culture and religion, and decides to watch a global gladiatorial tournament to the death, where combatants vie to be rewarded for a valiant death with a seat near their warrior god in his feasting hall. However, the religion is secretly manipulated by an ancient Berserker AI dedicated to the extinction of all life, which has staged the tournament as a lure in order to capture a visiting starship and escape the planet to destroy life on more planets.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Worlds of If, May-June 1974 | 1974-05-00 | ed. James Baen | UPD Publishing Corporation | $0.59?$: US dollar |
180 | 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 | Jack Gaughan |  |
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| Worlds of If, May-June 1974 [UK] | 1974-05-00 | ed. James Baen | Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd. | £0.30?£: UK pound |
180 | 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 | Jack Gaughan | |
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| Worlds of If, July-August 1974 | 1974-07-00 | ed. James Baen | UPD Publishing Corporation | $0.75?$: US dollar |
180 | 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 | Greg Theakston | |
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| Worlds of If, July-August 1974 [UK] | 1974-07-00 | ed. James Baen | Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd. | £0.30?£: UK pound |
180 | 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 | Greg Theakston | |
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| Berserker's Planet | 1975-04-00 | Fred Saberhagen | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | UY1167 | C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar |
173 | 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. |
novel | Jack Gaughan | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1975-04-00 | Fred Saberhagen | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #147) | 0-87997-167-3 / UY1167 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
173 | 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. |
novel | Jack Gaughan | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1975-05-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Orbit / Futura | 0-86007-827-2 | £0.40?£: UK pound |
165 | 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. |
novel | Peter Jones | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1980-05-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05408-0 | $2.25?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1982-12-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05465-X | $2.50?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| La planète Berserker | 1982-12-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Temps Futurs (Space Fiction) | 2-86607-026-7 | F55.00?F: French frank |
215 | 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. |
novel | Manchu | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1984-01-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05474-9 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1984-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05474-9 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1986-01-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05507-9 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1986-02-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05507-9 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1989-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen | VGSF / Gollancz | 0-575-04450-0 | £3.50?£: UK pound |
233 | 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. |
novel | Terry Pastor | |
| Berserker's Planet | 1991-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Tor | 0-812-50981-1 | $3.99?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | David Martine | |
| La planète du berserker | 1992-02-00 | Fred Saberhagen | L'Atalante ( Bibliothèque de l'évasion?Bibliotheque de l'evasion ) |
2-905158-47-6 | 221 | 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. |
novel | |||
| Urania #1256 | 1995-04-30 | ed. Giuseppe Lippi | Mondadori | 1256 | Lit 5,000?Lit: Italian lira |
174 | 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 | Oscar Chichoni | |
| 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's Planet | 2003-12-02 | Fred Saberhagen | Thorndike Press | 0-7862-6017-3 | $28.95?$: US dollar |
272 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
| Berserker Man | 2004-10-00 | Fred Saberhagen | Baen | 0-7434-9878-X | $22.00?$: US dollar |
680 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Kurt Miller | |
| Berserker's Planet | 2013-04-01 | Fred Saberhagen | JSS Literary Productions | 978-1-937422-27-1 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
| Berserker's Planet | date unknown | Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-05408-0 | $2.25?$: US dollar |
233 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
Reviews
- Review by Baird Searles (1975) in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), April 1975
- Review [French] by Jean-Pierre Andrevon (1983) in Fiction, #340
- Review by Laurence Scotford (1989) in Paperback Inferno, #81