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Author Index S	Fred Saberhagen
Title Index B	Berserker


Year	1967
Publisher	Penguin
ISBN	0441054951

Synopsis	No one knew where Berserkers came from. Everyone knew what they had come for. They were mechanical killers: their brain a computer programmed to destroy all forms of life. And Berserkers were illogical. The random disintegration of atoms could select any one of infinite means of destruction. Already planet after planet had been pounded into steam and dust. Only one kind of being could beat the Berserker. A race whose whole history had been spent developing more powerful weapons. A race conditioned to throw away their lives for the title 'hero'. The race was called man.

Review	Fred Saberhagen has given science fiction one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series. Created for a long-forgotten conflict, the berserkers are implacable, inimical killing machines that have been programmed to rebuild and redesign themselves. Their computer cunning and mechanical evolution present ever-greater challenges to humanity's scattered colonies. Publishers Weekly

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	Credit: NASA
Clearing the Way Before the Expedition 10 crew on the International Space Station could get its much needed Christmas supplies, the Progress 15 cargo ship had to undock from the Zvezda Service module and clear the way for the new Progress cargo ship. Backdropped by the blackness of space, the Progress 15 undocks from Zvezda and backs away at 2:37 p.m. EST on December 22, 2004, carrying its load of trash and unneeded equipment to be deorbited and burned up in Earth�s atmosphere.
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