Title: The Life Hater

Title: The Life Hater Title Record # 46253
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1964-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English

Synopsis: A representative of an inhabited planet engages in dialogue with an immense artificially intelligent war machine which has been programmed to destroy all life, in an attempt to convince it to abandon its mission.

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Year	Title
1964	The Peacemaker

Year	Language	Title
1964	Italian	Le furie
1966^ⓘTranslated by Michel Demuth	French	La vie contre la vie
1985^ⓘTranslated by Vojko Kraljeta	Croatian	Mirotvorac
1986^ⓘTranslated by Leonore Petz.	German	Der Friedensstifter
1988^ⓘTranslated by Алексей Дмитриевич Иорданский / Alexey Dmitrievich Iordanskiy. Russian title means "Of peace and love".	Russian	О мире и о любви^?O mire i o lyubvi [as by Фред Сейберхаген^?Fred Seyberkhagen Fred Saberhagen ]
1991^ⓘTranslated by Maura Arduini	Italian	Il paciere
1991^ⓘTranslated by Michel Demuth	French	Le pacifiste
1992^ⓘ Translated by Алексей Дмитриевич Иорданский (Aleksey Dmitriyevich Iordanskiy). Title translates as "On Peace and Love".	Russian	О мире и о любви^?O mire i o lyubvi [as by Фред Сейберхэген^?Fred Seyberkhegen Fred Saberhagen ]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
If, August 1964	1964-08-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Galaxy Publishing Corporation		$0.40^?$: 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	Fetterly
Urania #360	1964-11-29	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	360	Lit 200^?Lit: Italian lira	128	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	Karel Thole
The If Reader of Science Fiction	1966-03-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Doubleday		$4.50^?$: US dollar	x+ 252	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Richard Miller (artist)
Galaxie (2ème série), #28	1966-08-00	ed. Alain Dorémieux^?Alain Doremieux	OPTA		F2.50^?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	Gray Morrow
The If Reader of Science Fiction	1967-00-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Ace Books	H-19	$0.60^?$: US dollar	220	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	Cosimo Scianna
The If Reader of Science Fiction	1967-00-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Whiting & Wheaton		21/-^?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).	xi+ 252	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
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
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
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
Yesterday's Tomorrows	1982-10-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Berkley Books	0-425-05648-1	$9.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 431	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	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
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
Sirius, #110	1985-08-05	ed. Milivoj Pašiček^?Milivoj Pasicek Milivoj Pashichek	Vjesnik		Din 120^?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar	132	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	Igor Kordej
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
Saberhagen: My Best	1987-05-00	Fred Saberhagen	Baen Books	0-671-65645-7	$2.95^?$: US dollar	311	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	Tom Kidd
Saberhagen: My Best	1987-05-00	Fred Saberhagen	Baen Books	0-671-65645-7	C$3.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	311	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	Tom Kidd
Мир — Земле^?Mir — Zemle	1988-00-00	ed. Владимир Гопман^?Vladimir Gopman	Мир^?Mir ( Зарубежная фантастика^?Zarubezhnaia fantastika Zarubezhnaya fantastika )		R3.50	576	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	К. Сошинская^?K. Soshinskaya
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
Сборник научно-фантастических произведений^?Sbornik nauchno-fantasticheskikh proizvedeniy	1992-00-00	Франсис Карсак^?Francis Carsac Fransis Karsak	Штиинца^?Shtiintsa ( Икар^?Ikar )	5-376-01525-4		493	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	В. Смирнов^?V. Smirnov
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
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories	1996-09-00	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg	Barnes & Noble Books	0-7607-0142-3	$7.98^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 544	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Cheryl Knippenburg
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
Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964	2001-12-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg	NESFA Press	1-886778-21-3	$25.00^?$: US dollar	395	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Eddie Jones
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
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars	2012-05-17	ed. Ian Watson, Ian Whates	Robinson	978-1-78033-040-2	£7.99^?£: UK pound	xii+ 497	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	Joe Roberts
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars	2012-05-17	ed. Ian Watson, Ian Whates	Robinson	978-1-78033-546-9	£7.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Joe Roberts
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars	2012-06-00	ed. Ian Watson, Ian Whates	Running Press	978-0-7624-4592-9	$13.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 497	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	joeroberts.co.uk
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	0-441-05490-0	$2.95^?$: 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
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

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