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Keith Laumer


The Compleat Bolo

Bolo

Keith Laumer

A single-volume edition of "Bolo" and "Rogue Bolo". The most powerful servants of the Terran Empire are machines endowed with artificial intelligence, designed to protect humankind - and the most powerful of all are the Bolos. They started out as simple tanks but now control the entire galaxy.

Table of Contents:

  • The Night of the Trolls (1963) - novella
  • Courier - [Retief] (1961) - novelette (variant of The Frozen Planet)
  • Field Test (1976) - short story
  • The Last Command (1967) - short story
  • A Relic of War (1969) - short story
  • Combat Unit (1960) - short story
  • Rogue Bolo (1986) - novella
  • Final Mission (1986) - novella
  • A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines (1976) - short story

Bolo: The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade

Bolo: Book 1

Keith Laumer

Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.

But let BOLO speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade, the ultimate fighting machines tell their own fascinating, far-ranging and ultimately tragic story...

Table of Contents:

  • A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines (1976) - short story
  • The Night of the Trolls (1963) - novella
  • Courier - [Retief] (1961) - novelette (variant of The Frozen Planet)
  • Field Test (1976) - short story
  • The Last Command (1967) - short story
  • A Relic of War (1969) - short story
  • Combat Unit (1960) - short story

Rogue Bolo

Bolo: Book 2

Keith Laumer

The saga of the first completely automated bolos - and perhaps the beginning of the end for the human race.

Table of Contents:

  • Rogue Bolo (1986) - novella
  • Final Mission (1986) - novella
  • A Short History of the Bolo Fighting Machines (1976) - short story

The Stars Must Wait

Bolo: Book 3

Keith Laumer

Awakened from suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, John Jackson is shocked to discover that the ship never left Earth - and that he has slept a century after a world war. Facing a nightmare wilderness inhabited by neo-barbarians and sentient tanks, Jackson is the only man who can bring the world to its senses.

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