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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
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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Other Titles

Translations Serializations Translated Serializations
Year Language Title
1982Translated by Françoise Serph
French
La planète Berserker?La planete Berserker
1992Translated by Françoise Serph.
French La planète du berserker
Year Title
1974 Berserker's Planet (Part 1 of 2)
1974 Berserker's Planet (Part 2 of 2)
Year Language Title
1995 Italian Il pianeta Berserker (Complete Novel)

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Books 0-7434-9878-X
$22.00?$: US dollar
680
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Kurt Miller Checkmark
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 Checkmark
Berserker's Planet date unknown 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 Checkmark
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