This is not particularly great space opera but it was an enjoyable way to waste a day sitting home sick. The story is of a young officer who has been exiled to a distant post because of his brashness. He gets the job done in spite of incompetent leadership higher up. He is assigned to command two BOLOs which are well past their prime. He has trouble from day one because his new bosses do not appreciate his past talent for...
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Bolo brigade is a well crafted, actioned packed story in the universe of Keith Laumer's Bolos, giant sentient tanks that are humanity's most stalwart defenders.In Bolo Brigade, a bolo officer with a dead end career winds up posted to a backwater planet that is about to become a raging battleground. The Malach, a race of reptile-like aliens appears from the depths of space and invades the planet. The only force that can stop...
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This is one of those books you can read again and agian. Entertaining to the last. Believable characters and an extrodinary setting. I really wish (hint HINT) that a followup would come along one day.
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William H Keith, JR's book, "Bolo Brigade" (ISBN 0-671-87781-X), is his second contribution to Keith Laumer's Bolo story line. On the edge of the galactic arm and human occupied space, known as the Concordiat, lays the Strathan Cluster Confederation. The Confederation consists of thirty-six human inhabited worlds that gained their freedom from the direct control of the Concordiat, but still maintain an alliance with that...
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When a fleet of visious Malachs (picture four armed Velociraptors) invade two worlds on the edge of human space, the only thing that can stop them are two Mark XXIV Bolos. There's just one problem, the Bolos have been tied down with ill made, conflicting ROE (Rules of Engadgement). Fortunatly, the human officer in charge of the Bolos secretly changes the Bolos' programing, much to the Bolos' relief. There's just one chance...
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