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* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Being what the omnicidal machines call "goodlife" is universally treated as a capital crime. For good reason.
* [[Magic Versus Science]]: One short story features aliens apparently based on American Indians. They pray to the spirits of animals when they need to kill stuff to eat it. {{spoiler|It works for berserkers too, if you can get them close enough.}}
* [[Not Just a Tournament]]: In ''Berserker's Planet'', a cult on Hunter's Planet regularly has tournaments where the contestants fight to the death. Little do the competitors know that the ultimate controller of the cult is a disabled Berserker which is doing its best to carry out its programming to destroy all life.
* [[The Quisling]]: "Goodlife" are humans who work secretly for Berserkers.
** The alternative: you are skinned alive as an educational example to others.
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: The Berserkers
** Fabulously turned on its head with [[Larry Niven]]'s "A Teardrop Falls" - {{spoiler|the human-in-a-computer protagonist uploads himself into a Berserker, taking over two of the three redundant "brains," keeping the third Berserker brain around for reference. Now that he has a majority interest in the decision-making, he can make the Berserker do what he wants while it has no choice in the matter.}}
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* [[Wetware CPU]]: Some of the stories had the killing machines attempt to use organic brains to introduce more fuzzy logic into their tactical computers.
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