Reading order
Berserker reading order
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1967–1985
- Published
- about 15 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1967–1985Completed
- Fred Saberhagen’s long-running science fiction about the Berserkers, self-repairing robot warships built by a long-dead race for a forgotten war and programmed to destroy all life wherever they find it.
- Across stories and novels spanning thousands of years, humanity fights them with courage, cunning and sometimes music or chess, and the machines in turn learn to use human traitors.
- Only three of the many books are listed here, starting with the first collection, Berserker (1967).
- Classic, idea-driven space opera; no book has enough ratings yet.
- Any order works.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 825 pages, about 15 hours. At 45 min a day that is 20 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 18, 2026.
- Stage 115 h20 daysby November 18, 2026
- 1. Berserker
- 2. Brother Assassin
- 7. Berserker: Blue Death
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 28, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Berserker book is the longest?
“Berserker” is the longest at 309 pages; the shortest is “Brother Assassin” with 228 pages.