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The Ultimate Enemy (1979)

by Fred Saberhagen
(#5 in Berserker)

BERSERKERS
The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.

MAN
The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something... call it 'spirit'. This odd facet of an otherwise undistinguished example of the disease of life has been a source of deep annoyance to the berserkers since first the two forms met: no wonder then that for each the other is THE ULTIMATE ENEMY

Contents:
The Smile
Pressure
The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron
Inhuman Error
Some Events at the Templar Radiant
Starsong
Smasher
The Game
Wings Out of Shadow