This book is a disappointment. I was excited about another Bolo book, but this one is all republished stories I’d previously read: Combat Unit (Keith Laumer): appeared in The Compleat Bolo. Lost Legion (S. M. Stirling): appeared in Bolos 1: Honor of the Regiment. A Time to Kill (David Weber): appeared in Bolos 4: Last…
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Bolo Series
Created by Keith Laumer and then followed on by many others, this series was very entertaining whilst not being fine literature. 1986: The Compleat Bolo by Keith Laumer (includes Bolo, and Rogue Bolo) 1990: The Stars Must Wait by Keith Laumer 1993: Bolos Book I: Honor of the Regiment by S.M. Stirling, S.N. Lewitt, J….
Dogs of War
Another combat anthology, this time edited by David Drake. Or Battle’s Sound (Harry Harrison): already read in Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow and Body Armor: 2000. Liberty Port (David Drake): already read in The Complete Hammer’s Slammer’s Volume 1. Straw (Gene Wolfe): steam punk mercenaries in a future which is more like the past. A good read….
Bolo Strike
There is a planet populated by humans which has been isolated for many years. In that time, aliens have come to rule the planet and treat the humans as slaves. Its pretty clear that they need liberating, right? What if you trash the planet in the process? What if they actually have the ability to…
Bolo Rising
In the distant future after the Melconians have done their thing, there is a small pocket of humans and they’re having a bad day. One of things I like about the Bolo books is that their consistent in their overall direction for future human history, and that future is reasonably plausible — its a bit…
Bolo Brigade
There seems to be a formula for bolo books — an obsolete bolo or two, and alien invader, a solitary bolo commander, and preferably a management chain which either doesn’t trust bolos, the officer, or preferably both. Its even better if the chain of command is also grossly incompetent. This book has all of those,…
The Stars Must Wait
This book is a novelization of “Night of the Trolls”, which I have already read as part of The Compleat Bolo and Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow. I’m pretty fond of the short story, and this book version didn’t start out strongly — there is a prelude to explain some background, and then the book launches into…
Bolos 6: Cold Steel
This bolo book is different from the previous ones, in that it heavily focuses on the humans side of the story, instead of the bolo’s inner monologue. I’ve seen reviews online that say this makes it a bad bolo book, but I think that’s unfair. The bolos are critical to the telling of this story,…
Bolos 5: Old Guard
This book is similar to the previous Bolo anthologies in that it is written by a number of different authors, but utilizes Laumer’s Concordiat universe. Contrary to another LibraryThing review, all of the stories on this book don’t occur on one planet. All but one of them occurs on Delas, and the final one is…
Bolos 2: The Unconquerable
This is another collection of short stories involving Laumer’s Bolo artificially intelligent super tanks. None of these stories are written by Laumer, but they are written by some very good SF authors. I enjoyed the collection, although I do think Honor of the Regiment was marginally better. Title: The Unconquerable Author: Keith Laumer Genre: Fiction…