The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.

MAN

The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something ... call it 'spirit'. This odd facet of an otherwise undistinguished example of the disease of life has been a source of deep annoyance to the berserkers since first the two forms met: no wonder then that for each the other is THE ULTIMATE ENEMY

Contents:

• Smile, The (1977)
• Pressure (1967)
• Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron, The (1974)
• Inhuman Error (1974)
• Some Events at the Templar Radiant: (1979)
• Starsong (1967)
• Smasher (1978)
• Game, The (1977)
• Wings Out of Shadow (1974)