2006-08-31
Bolo!
Author: David Weber
David Weber picks up the torch of Keith Laumer's Bolo universe with this collection of a short novel, a short story, two novellas, and a technical appendix. The stories are presented in chronological order from the era of the Mark XXV Bolo (the first permanently sentient models) to after the Last War.
I'm in catch-up mode again, and these were my first Bolo stories, so I won't say all that much. This is recommended if you like Weber, for his military style certainly comes through, or if the thought of sentient AIs integrated with thirty meter tall, multi-thousand ton tanks capable of (and sometimes seen) flattening entire planets sounds totally cool. I would have to read a few older books to know if Bolo! is a good starting point, but it works for me.
David Weber picks up the torch of Keith Laumer's Bolo universe with this collection of a short novel, a short story, two novellas, and a technical appendix. The stories are presented in chronological order from the era of the Mark XXV Bolo (the first permanently sentient models) to after the Last War.
I'm in catch-up mode again, and these were my first Bolo stories, so I won't say all that much. This is recommended if you like Weber, for his military style certainly comes through, or if the thought of sentient AIs integrated with thirty meter tall, multi-thousand ton tanks capable of (and sometimes seen) flattening entire planets sounds totally cool. I would have to read a few older books to know if Bolo! is a good starting point, but it works for me.
