Title: Masque of the Red Shift

Title: Masque of the Red Shift Title Record # 54115
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1965-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English

Synopsis: A robotic representative of a giant artificially intelligent war machine programmed to destroy all life infiltrates the decadent court of the human rulers.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1966^ⓘTranslated by Roberta Rambelli	Italian	I berserker
1967^ⓘTranslated by Paul Alpérine	French	Le masque du berserker rouge
1974^ⓘTranslated by Eurico Fonseca	Portuguese	A máscara do desvio para o vermelho
1976^ⓘTranslated by Dolf Strasser	German	Berserker
1986^ⓘTranslated by Leonore Petz	German	Das Maskenspiel der Rotverschiebung
1991^ⓘTranslated by Maura Arduini	Italian	La maschera del vortice rosso

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1966 Nebula	Novelette

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
If, November 1965	1965-11-00	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
World's Best Science Fiction: 1966	1966-00-00	ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim	Ace Books (World's Best Science Fiction #2)	H-15	$0.60^?$: US dollar	287	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
Il vento del sole	1966-12-00	ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim	Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #36)		Lit 1,500^?Lit: Italian lira	269	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	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), #34	1967-02-00	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 Second If Reader of Science Fiction	1968-11-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Doubleday		$4.95^?$: US dollar	239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Catherine Hopkins
The Second If Reader of Science Fiction	1969-05-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Rapp & Whiting	0-85391-084-7	£1.25^?£: UK pound	239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
World's Best Science Fiction: Second Series	1970-00-00	ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim	Ace Books (World's Best Science Fiction #2)	91354	$0.95^?$: US dollar	287	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	Jack Gaughan
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
The Second If Reader of Science Fiction	1970-11-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Ace Books	36331	$0.95^?$: US dollar	255	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	Jack Gaughan
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction	1971-02-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Sphere	0-7221-6922-1	£0.35^?£: UK pound	256	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
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
Science-Fiction-Stories 61	1976-08-00	ed. uncredited	Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 #118 (3260))	3-548-03260-5	DM 3.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	127	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	Gray Morrow
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
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
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
The Berserker Attack	1987-00-00	Fred Saberhagen	Otherworlds Club	0-681-56056-8	$3.50^?$: US dollar	149	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	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 Lies	1991-09-00	Fred Saberhagen	Tor	0-812-50563-8	$3.99^?$: US dollar	xi+ 208	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	Alan Gutierrez
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
Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology	1996-11-00	ed. David G. Hartwell, Milton T. Wolf	Tor	0-312-85287-8	$24.95^?$: US dollar	798	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	John Berkey
Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology	1996-11-00	ed. David G. Hartwell, Milton T. Wolf	Tor	0-312-86224-5	$35.00^?$: US dollar	798	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	John Berkey
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
Space Soldiers	2001-04-00	ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois	Ace Books	0-441-00824-0	$5.99^?$: US dollar	280	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	Lee MacLeod
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	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
Space Soldiers	2013-07-15	ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois	Baen Books	978-1-62579-153-5	$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Ron Miller
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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