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Bolo Fighting Machines

Retief of the CDT

Last Revised: 07/12/2007

Introduction

Bolos are basically an automated tank: a tank controlled by a computer.  A variation appears in the novel "A Plague of Demons" wherein the tank is controlled by a brain.

Occasionally, Bolos pop up in other Laumer stories:

• Night of Delusions
• ?

Order of Publication (all are short stories except for "Rogue Bolo")

1. Combat Unit, November 1960 (Laumer's 3rd published SF short story)
2. Courier, (a.k.a. The Frozen Planet), September 1961 (a Retief story with a Bolo in it)
3. The Night of the Trolls, October 1963
4. The Last Command, January 1967
5. A Relic of War, October 1969
6. Field Test, March 1976
7. Rogue Bolo, 1986 (a novel)
    

All may be found in the book "The Compleat Bolo" published in 1990 by Baen (TOR).
 

Life After Death

Since Laumer's death, others have taken up the Bolo helm and written stories:

• Bolo Brigade, Frank H. Keith, JR, May 1997, Baen
• Bolo Rising, Frank H. Keith, JR., Nov 1998, Baen
• Bolo Strike, Frank H. Keith, JR., Oct 2002, Baen
• Bolos: Honor of the Regiment (book 1), Sept. 1993, Baen
• Bolos: The Unconquerable (book 2), Oct 1994, Baen
• Bolos: The Triumphant (book 3), Aug 1995, Baen
• Bolos: Last Stand (book 4), Feb 1997, Baen
• Bolos: Old Guard (book 5), Jan 2001, Baen
• Bolos: Cold Steel (book 6), July 2002, Baen
• The Road To Damascus, John Ringo and Linda Evans, March 2004, Baen
• Bolo!, David Weber, Jan 2005, Baen
• Old Soldiers, David Weber, JR., Sept 2005, Baen
• The Best of the Bolos: Their Finest hour,
  (an anthology of Bolo stories by various authors including Laumer), August 2010, Baen