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Rendered obsolete and stationed on the unimportant planet of Muir, Freddy and Ferdy face an unexpected enemy in the Malach, a deadly alien race that resembles pack-hunting dinosaurs.
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Jurassic Park in Space!
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The Concordiat is threatened once again, this time by velociraptors in space. The author does a very good job creating the dino-invader world, but struggles in creating the Bolo thoughts. Overall, the story is fun and interesting, but it falls flat at the end. The final invasion is just too poorly written. The invaders go from being incredibly savage and smart warriors to impatient idiots who land on the planet before the invasion has actually begun, which just happens to help the good guys win.
This is a fun, quick, mindless read that lacks any attempt at reality.
Mindless Entertainment
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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 making them look bad and neither do they trust the sentient armored vehicles (BOLOs) assigned to them. He has to try and cope with laziness and a maintenance unit that sees no point in working hard when nothing much happens in that dist reach at the edge of the galaxy. Also troubling is the fact that the two BOLOs seem to be quite a bit more self-aware than should be expected for their model numbers.
Meanwhile, a new set of aliens has decided to invade. These are vaguely like carnivorous dinosaurs and have the same sort of table manners. Their biochemistry means that they cannot eat humans but that does not take the fun out of hunting them. Their civilization depends upon conquering others and looting refined metals. Their fleet is huge and they are without mercy.
It is all up to our young hero to stop them. He has two aging tanks at his disposal and will have to fight his own command authority as well as the aliens.
Other BOLO books have been better but this one did provide a few hours of enjoyment. It is worth reading and will even be remembered for a while.
good book written in the tradition of the Bolos!
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This book was a very enjoyable read. Bolo fans will notice that instead of being several short stories about different Bolo marks, this is actually a novel about two "obsolete" Mark XXIV Bolos who were thought to be past their prime. While I'm normally very fond of the short story approach, this novel was well written and held my attention through the entire story. A "must read" for any Bolo fan!
One of the best Bolo books!
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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 them are two old bolos and whatever forces the planetary government can muster.
Bolo Brigade thunders to a crescendo of action that is glittering in in its intensity and at one point seems to literally roar with the fury of battle. The bolos display courage and humanity that goes far beyond the call of duty, and the ending may even leave you with tears in your eyes.
Sometimes authors just nail it right on the head and William Keith excels with Bolo Brigade.
Pleasing!
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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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