Created by Keith Laumer and then followed on by many others, this series was very entertaining whilst not being fine literature. 1986: The Compleat Bolo by Keith Laumer (includes Bolo, and Rogue Bolo) 1990: The Stars Must Wait by Keith Laumer 1993: Bolos Book I: Honor of the Regiment by S.M. Stirling, S.N. Lewitt, J….
Month: February 2010
Old Soldiers
This is a more traditional bolo book than The Road to Damascus, which means I enjoyed it more. I’m a little sad that its the last one of the series, but there is another one coming soon (entitled Their Finest Hour due out in August) which gives me something to hang out for. This book…
The Road to Damascus
I didn’t like this book. Bolo books should be about combat and human interactions with AI machines, which this book starts nicely with. However, the book then diverts from that and spends hundreds of pages ranting about how bad socialism is. Sure, the baddies are nasty, but its not a very believable rendition of communist…
Dragon’s Egg
This book was strongly recommended by a friend, and has been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read for a while. Its my first real taste of “hard” science fiction, and I enjoyed it. The story is surprisingly fast moving given it has to cover the entire development of an intelligent species, and the…
Books read in January 2010
Buy Jupiter Asimov’s Mirage The Renegades of Pern The Man in the Rubber Mask
Dogs of War
Another combat anthology, this time edited by David Drake. Or Battle’s Sound (Harry Harrison): already read in Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow and Body Armor: 2000. Liberty Port (David Drake): already read in The Complete Hammer’s Slammer’s Volume 1. Straw (Gene Wolfe): steam punk mercenaries in a future which is more like the past. A good read….
Body Armor: 2000
I love a good anthology, although I’d read a few of these stories before: Contact! (David Drake): this story is quite unlike the other stuff of his that I have read, mostly because its set in the Vietnam War, not the far future. A good story with an excellent twist. The Warbots (Larry S. Todd):…
Lyonesse
This is another book I read as a child, except in this case I didn’t really remember much of it — the only bit I remembered was the punishment of Madouc’s mother, but that might have been because I was a teenaged boy at the time. Overall this is a very good book. It took…