Fred Saberhagen - Berserker - Metal Murderer

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ADVENTURE OF THE METAL MURDERER

By Fred Saberhagen

It had the shape of a man, the brain of an electronic devil. It and the machines like it were the best

imitations of men and women that the berserkers, murderous machines themselves, were able to devise

and build. Still, they could be seen as obvious frauds when closely inspected by any humans.

"Only twenty-nine accounted for?" the supervisor of Defense demanded sharply. Strapped into his

combat chair, he was gazing intently through the semitransparent information screen before him, into

space. The nearby bulk of Earth was armored in the dun-brown of defensive force fields, the normal

colors of land and water and air invisible.

"Only twenty-nine." The answer arrived on the flagship's bridge amid a sharp sputtering of electrical

noise. The tortured voice continued, "And it's quite certain now that there were thirty to begin with."

"Then where's the other one?"

There was no reply.

All of Earth's defensive forces were still on full alert,

though the attack had been tiny, no more than an attempt

at infiltration, and seemed to have been thoroughly. repelled. Berserkers, remnants of an ancient

interstellar war, were mortal enemies of everything that lived and the greatest danger to humanity that the

universe had yet revealed.

A small blur leaped over Earth's dun-brown limb, hurtling along on a course that would bring it within a

few hundred kilometers of the supervisor's craft. This was Power Station One, a tamed black hole. In

time of peace the power-hungry billions on the planet drew from it half their needed energy. Station One

was visible to the eye only as a slight, flowing distortion of the stars beyond.

Another report was coming in. "We are searching space for the missing berserker android, Supervisor."

"You had damned well better be."

"The infiltrating enemy craft had padded containers for thirty androids, as shown by computer analysis of

its debris. We must assume that all containers were filled."

Life and death were in the supervisor's tones. "Is there any possibility that the missing unit got past you to

the surface?"

"Negative, Supervisor." There was a slight pause. "At least we know it did not reach the surface in our

time."

"Our time? What does that mean, babbler? How could...ah."

The black hole flashed by. Not really tamed, though that was a reassuring word, and humans applied it

frequently. Just harnessed, more or less.

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