Berserker Man is the story of Michel Geulincx - humanity's best hope to defeat the indomitable Berserker menace. The problem is that he's eleven years old. Even so, human scientists have created a new weapons system called Lancelot and Michel alone, out of fourteen billion people, is the most promising potential pilot based on his genetic footprint. Unfortunately the berserkers know about Lancelot too, and will not allow Michel to become their undoing.

On the plus side, this was a pretty quick read. The pace kept things moving right along. Additionally, it had some pretty intriguing physical anomalies which all by themselves were interesting.

On the negative side, it's just another "hometown boy becomes the most powerful being in the universe" story. Some of the characters were interesting and had some potential, but the lightness of the volume made it impossible to add more depth. Another thing that was somewhat disconcerting is that I missed a key plot point - mostly because it was given all of about six words. If not for the afterword, I would have missed it completely.

Read 10/2011 ( )

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