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Bolo Series in Order: 14 books


  • Keith Laumer

    Unrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaces man in that most human of endeavors: war. In these scintillating tales of the ever-advancing Dinochrome Brigade, the most effective weapons ever devised ...



  • Keith Laumer

    The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV Model M, which performed remarkably well.However, the always-present possibility of capture and use of a Bolo by an enemy was a constant sou...




  • Keith Laumer

    BOLOS: YOU GOTTA LOVE 'EM (OR ELSE) What is a BOLO? The symbol of brute force, intransigent defiance, and adamantine will. But on a deeper level, the BOLO is the Lancelot of the future: The perfect knight, sans peur et sans reproche. The perfect g...



  • Keith Laumer

    "DEFEAT" DOES NOT COMPUTE The Unconquerable continues the Amplified History of the Bolo: From the earliest entries in the Bolo saga comes the account of a besieged American platoon and their experimental robot tank facing an enemy who controls a l...



  • Keith Laumer

    Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy. David Weber tells the story of a Bolo, th...



  • Keith Laumer

    LIKE A ROCK (But then, the first Bolos were GM products....) Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly un...




  • William H. Keith Jr.

    THIS TIME, SPARTACUS IS ARMED WITH HELLBORES... . The enemy has struck the human colony of Cloud with merciless precision, an attack so deadly that even the world's sole Bolo, a Mark XXXIII Mod HCT named Hector, was overwhelmed. Within days, the s...






  • Keith Laumer

    GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY The onslaught of the Melconians was not the last conflict that humanity's interstellar Concordiat would have to face. For now the Kezdai--a newly encountered species with war at the center of their philosophy--have taken to...



  • William H. Keith Jr.

    TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS. . . . And this Victor is fully capable of raking them in, a Bolo Mark XXXIII of the 4th Regiment, Second Brigade, First Confederation Mobile Army Corps, in the vanguard of an all-out Bolo strike against the planet Caer...



  • Keith Laumer

    THE THIN STEEL LINE Spreading throughout the galaxy, the human race finds that some of its new neighbors are very unfriendly. But when threats arise, the humans know what to do: Break out the Bolos! Gigantic tanks, with enough firepower for an ...



  • David Weber

    OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE Captain Maneka Trevor was the sole human survivor of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion ... but she hadn't wanted to be one. The Bolo known as "Lazarus" -- Unit 28/G-179-LAZ -- was the 39th's sole surviving Bolo ... but h...



  • Keith Laumer

    Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Their artificial intelligences were designed to make t...