Main page

Editions

Old Guard: A Bolos Anthology: Book 5

by Keith Laumer

Series: Bolos (5)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
63	4	95,845	(4.11)	None

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

▾Book information

Info:	Baen (2001), Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Member:	mikal
Collections:	Your library	Rating:
Tags:	read

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

TCook, lairdb, serountree, jamespurcell, aksnowguy, thorfi, philn, mattisonk, bboden13, komitissa

numbers

show all

▾Tags

=Baen Books(1) ADWs(1) anthology(6) artificial intelligence(1) Baen(2) baen ebook(1) BOLO(6) Bolos(4) Box 36(1) ebook(5) fantasy(2) fiction(4) jj(1) K. Laumer(1) Keith Laumer(1) Laumer(1) mac(1) military(2) military sf(1) NLO(1) partial series(1) sci-fi(7) science fiction(11) sf(5) sff(1) short stories(1) space(1) tanks(1) unread(2) war(2)

▾Recommendations

Member recommendations

None.

contribute your own recommendation

▾Will you like it?

won't like will probably not like will probably like will like will love

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 4 of 4

This book is similar to the previous Bolo anthologies in that it is written by a number of different authors, but utilizes Laumer's Concordiat universe. Contrary to another LibraryThing review, all of the stories on this book don't occur on one planet. All but one of them occurs on Delas, and the final one is on another nearby Concordiat planet. However, all of these stories do revolve around engagements with one enemy, and follow on from each other. This is something which hasn't occurred in other Bolo anthologies. I enjoyed this book, although it took longer to read than I would like because of other things happen in my life.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/Keith_Lau... (

)

mikal | Jul 14, 2009 |

Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/067...

khms | Oct 14, 2007 |

This book is a compilation of short stories by different authors. What I found uniqe was the fact that all of the short stories take place on the same planet. A look at the future of AI and future applications in war. The star of the books, of course, are the Bolos. A self-aware robotic tank with a long distinguished history. Some of the story lines move to fast, so as to not be developed to my taste. But I must just assume that is the problem with short stories in this series.... (

)

mramos | Aug 24, 2007 |

http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j01/4/ind... (

)

Coruca | Jul 7, 2006 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 4 of 4

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Bolos (5)

Canonical Title

Old Guard

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (1)

Bolo (tank)

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671319574, Mass Market Paperback)

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 arms against the Concordiat and its colony worlds. For war, the Terrans have only one answer:

Break out the Bolos!

Self-aware robotic tanks, the Bolos have fought bravely and well since the days when humans fought each other. Now they battle across the stars to defend us all...and though the times are perilous, we've never been in better hands than those of our old metal guardians: Keith Laumer's greatest creation, the Bolos.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400)

▾Open Shelves Classification

The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details.