Title: Fortress Ship

Title: Fortress Ship Title Record # 72643
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Date: 1963-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Language: English

Synopsis: A human engaged in a conflict with an alien artificially intelligent war machine must find a way to conceal from the enemy that its ability to handicap his cognition is successful, or else it will attack when it knows that his ability to defend is impaired.

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Year	Title
1963	Without a Thought

Year	Language	Title
1970^ⓘTranslated by Birgit Reß-Bohusch	German	Der Berserker
1973^ⓘTranslated by Léon Thoorens	French	Les dames et le fou furieux
1973^ⓘTranslated by Bruno Martin	French	Forteresse
1974^ⓘTranslated by Eurico Fonceca	Portuguese	Sem um pensamento
1981^ⓘTranslated by Božidar Stančić	Croatian	Igra dame s Bjesomučnim^?Igra dame s Bjesomucnim Igra dame s Bjesomuchnim
1986^ⓘTranslated by Leonore Petz	German	Ohne einen Gedanken
1991^ⓘTranslated by Maura Arduini	Italian	Senza pensiero
1995^ⓘTranslated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto	Italian	La nave fortezza

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
If, January 1963	1963-01-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Digest Productions Corporation; New York		$0.35^?$: 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	Schelling
The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF	1964-00-00	ed. Judith Merril	Simon & Schuster		$4.95^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Lawrence Ratzkin
The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF	1965-03-00	ed. Judith Merril	Simon & Schuster / SFBC		$1.90^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Lawrence Ratzkin
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F	1965-05-00	ed. Judith Merril	Dell	9775	$0.75^?$: US dollar	384	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	Three Lions
9th Annual S-F	1967-00-00	ed. Judith Merril	Mayflower-Dell	9775-8	5/-^?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).	381	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	Hoot von Zitzewitz
The Best of Science Fiction 9	1970-00-00	ed. Judith Merril	Mayflower	0-583-11068-1	7/-^?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).	381	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
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology	1986-09-00	ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl	Bluejay Books	0-312-94471-3	$19.95^?$: US dollar	438	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Alan Gutierrez
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology	1986-09-00	ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl	Bluejay Books	0-312-94472-1	$10.95^?$: US dollar	438	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	Alan Gutierrez
The Great SF Stories #25 (1963)	1992-07-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #885)	0-88677-518-3	$5.50^?$: US dollar	382	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	Bob Layzell
The Great SF Stories #25 (1963)	1993-01-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg	DAW Books / SFBC	05922	$8.98^?$: US dollar	381	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bob Layzell
Altair, February 2000	2000-02-00	ed. Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson	Altair Publishing		A$9.95^?A$: Australian dollar	160	A5^?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines	mag	Carol McLean-Carr

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