Bolo

Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade

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Keith Laumer: Bolo (1982, Berkley)

216 pages

English language

Published June 1, 1982 by Berkley.

ISBN:
978-0-425-05617-2
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OCLC Number:
52785754

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4 stars

Laumer's first short story collection about the Bolos - heavily armored fighting machines that initially had a human operator but eventually became fully AI . The first chapter is a "history" of the Bolos, and then a collection of short stories follows, each of which features a Bolo but with no connection between the stories apart from that. They're set in various different time periods with various different Bolo models; the collection also includes one Retief story (Retief is Laumer's sort of Bond-like space agent) with only a very minor Bolo appearance. The rest of the stories are all about the Bolos though, some told from the point of view of the humans and some told from the Bolo perspective. Perhaps it's partly the very dated 70s style of writing, but I find Laumer's Bolo characters are much more engaging than the human ones, who are generally superficial and full …

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