Our wars were behind us. Mankind was shifting out from the world of its delivery. New worlds had been resolved, and with the prosperity from the galaxy accessible, poverty was removed. Then out of the clear summer sky arrived the first berserker strike.

The fantastic battles began-between existence and nonlife, between freethinking humanity and the preprogrammed killing devices we found call berserkers. Plus some of those fights will be waged with is situated.

This assortment of short stories continues the ongoing saga from the berserker wars with “The Equipment of Lies,” “Masque of the Red Shift,” “In the Temple of Mars,” “Brother Berserker,” and “Smasher.”