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BOLO Fighting Machines

Last Revised: 07/12/2007

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Bolo Fighting Machines

Retief of the CDT

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

  • Courier (a Retief story)

Order of Publication

  1. Combat Unit, November 1960 (Laumer's 3rd published SF short story)

  2. Courier, (a.k.a. The Frozen Planet), September 1961 

  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:

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