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The Life Hater

Fred Saberhagen

First published August 1964
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)

A representative of an inhabited planet engages in dialogue with an immense artificially intelligent war machine which has been programmed to destroy all life, in an attempt to convince it to abandon its mission.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1964 Cover If, August 1964 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 65
November 1964 Cover Urania #360 Mondadori MAGAZINE 35
March 1966 Cover The If Reader of Science Fiction Doubleday Anthology 73
August 1966 Cover Galaxie, Août 1966 OPTA MAGAZINE 140
1967 Cover The If Reader of Science Fiction Ace Books Anthology 73
1967 Cover The If Reader of Science Fiction Whiting & Wheaton Anthology 73
January 1967 Cover Berserker Ballantine Books Collection 55
October 1970 Cover Berserker Penguin Books Collection 62
September 1978 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
September 1979 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
1980 Cover Berserker ! Librairie des Champs-Élysées Collection
June 1980 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
June 1982 Cover La guerre des Berserkers Temps Futurs Collection 71
October 1982 Cover Yesterday's Tomorrows Berkley Books Anthology 298
November 1982 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
November 1982 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
April 1984 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
April 1984 Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
April 1984 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
1985 Cover Berserker Penguin Books Collection 63
April 1985 Cover Berserker Ace Science Fiction Books Collection 60
August 1985 Cover Sirius, #110 Vjesnik MAGAZINE 69
December 1985 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
January 1986 Cover Berserker Moewig Collection 53
July 1986 Cover Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
May 1987 Cover Saberhagen: My Best Baen Books Collection 152
May 1987 Cover Saberhagen: My Best Baen Books Collection 152
1988 Cover Мир — Земле Мир Anthology 446
July 1988 Cover Berserker Moewig Collection 53
May 1991 Cover Urania #1152 Mondadori MAGAZINE 44
July 1991 Cover Les machines de mort L'Atalante Collection 91
1992 Cover Сборник научно-фантастических произведений Штиинца Omnibus 486
September 1992 Berserker Ace Books Collection 60
1995 Cover Машина—убиец Офир Collection 65
September 1996 Cover 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 294
July 1998 Cover Berserkers: The Beginning Baen Books Omnibus 51
November 2001 Cover Les berserkers: Tome 1 L'Atalante Omnibus
December 2001 Cover Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964 NESFA Press Anthology 349
June 2003 Cover Berserker Thorndike Press Collection
September 2003 Cover Berserkers: The Beginning Blackstone Audiobooks Omnibus |6
July 2005 Cover Berserkers: The Beginning Blackstone Audiobooks Omnibus |6
July 2005 Cover Berserkers: The Beginning Blackstone Audiobooks Omnibus |6
May 2012 Cover The Mammoth Book of SF Wars Robinson Anthology 136
May 2012 Cover The Mammoth Book of SF Wars Robinson Anthology |10
June 2012 Cover The Mammoth Book of SF Wars Running Press Anthology 136
November 2012 Cover Berserker JSS Literary Productions Collection
June 2013 Cover Berserkers: The Beginning Blackstone Audio Omnibus |6