On my latest dive into my pile of Ace Doubles I came up with a pair of novels about which I had mixed feelings. Keith Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium is one that I have long wanted to read, as it's considered an early classic of alternate history. I've never been a fan of Laumer's work, though, and ...
Humanity on the planet of Cloud has been enslaved by mechanical overlords with a penchant for harvesting body parts.Their last line of defence, Hector, a Mark 33 Bolo had been incapacitated at the start of the invasion and now stands guard over the human slaves....A good full length Bolo novel, with...
Odyssey is an anthology of science fiction stories written by Keith Laumer in the 1960’s. This is the third anthology of his stories that I’ve read over the past couple of years and, as usual, my enjoyment level varied. The first story, Galactic Odyssey, took up about a third of this 576-page book...
Reading this book was sort of like exercising. I didn’t really want to start reading it but, once I did, I found I was enjoying it. Then tedium started to set in and, by the end of the book, I was happy to be done. Once it was over, I was glad I had read it. This is one of the many sixties-era scien...
A new race of alien invaders called the Malach launch an attack on human inhabited worlds. After ripping their way through the Mk 18 Bolo on Wide Sky they head for the planet of Muir.This planet is defended by Freddy and Ferdy, two Mk 24's, and their newly assigned commander, a maverick who is on hi...
Collection of tales following the Dinochrome Brigade as they defend a planet against a new alien threat. Starts with some older models in the opening engagements then moves up to new Mark XXXIV's.All of the stories are focused on one planet and one enemy, rather than just being a collection of short...
This is an anthology of stories that were written by Keith Laumer back around the 1959-1970 time frame. Baen has published several short story collections along these lines, each featuring different authors’ works from a few decades ago. Many of them are (or, at least, were) available from the Baen ...
Collection of short stories, following increasing marks of the self aware tanks known as Bolos.There are several other short story collections (that came out in the 90's?) with different authors, but this is the best one, being typically 70's sci-fi.Laumer does a great job of showing the "humanity" ...
The Bolo is a gigantic, sentient tank, introduced by Keith Laumer in the 1976 "Bolo: The annals of the Dinochrome Brigade" (a collection of short stories).This book is in the same manner - short stories (although by different authors this time, rather than one), going "historically" from earlier mar...
The Bolo is a gigantic, sentient tank, introduced by Keith Laumer in the 1976 "Bolo: The annals of the Dinochrome Brigade" (a collection of short stories).This book is in the same manner - short stories (although by different authors this time, rather than one), going "historically" from earlier mar...
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