Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met --- and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a swath of death through the galaxy --- until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man.

These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy --- and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things.

• Without a Thought
• Goodlife
• Patron of the Arts
• The Peacemaker
• Stone Place
• What T and I Did
• Mr. Jester
• Masque of the Red Shift
• Sign of the Wolf
• In the Temple of Mars
• The Face of the Deep