There had been a battle. The berserker had met some terrible opponent, and had taken a terrible wound. A cavity two miles wide and fifty miles deep had been driven in by a sequence of shaped atomic charges, through level after level of machinery, deck after deck of armor and had been stopped only by the last inner defenses of the buried unliving heart. The berserker had survived and crushed its enemy, and soon after, its repair machines had sealed over the outer opening of the wound, using extra thicknesses of armor.
When Hemphill sees the blasted cavity-what little of it his tiny spacesuit lamp can show-he feels a shrinking fear greater than any in his memory. Stopping on the edge of the void with his arm instinctively around Maria, he is stunned by the realization of just what fighting the berserker means.
They have already come an hour's journey from the airlock, through weightless vacuum inside the great machine. Hemphill, his pistol ready, has a bomb, and two hundred feet of cord tied around his left arm, when he recognizes the once-molten edge of the berserker's great scar for what it is: the damned thing has survived a level of attempted destruction that not only had hardly weakened it, but rendered the bomb Hemphill carried under his arm only a pathetic toy...
Written by Christine from Monroeville, PA
on July 10th, 2008
Book Rating: 3/5
This Narrator has got to be one of the worst I've ever encountered. I actually timed it - he pauses a full second between sentences! A third grader could read the book better than this, no wonder it takes 12 or so discs. However, the content itself was less than edge-of-your-seat so that may account for some of the monotony as well. I'm currently halfway through the set and I really can only recall one of the stories told so far. And that's only because it's one of the longer ones.
The Berserkers
Written by Diane Child on June 15th, 2006
Book Rating: 1/5
This book was extremely boring at it's best. There were many places in the book that might have been exciting to a certain degree but the reader failed to bring out the characters' reactions and emotions to make the scenes viable. Perhaps a reader with a less monotonous, dry voice would have enhanced the book a little. I give you fair warning "Please do not drive and play this book at the same time". You may fall asleep at the wheel!
