Cold Steel

by J. Steven York

Bolos (6)

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When humans face tough threats across the galaxy, there's only one option: break out the Bolos! Gigantic Al-controlled tanks with enough firepower for an army (and possessing warmer hearts than many of the flesh-and-blood creatures they protect), the Bolos battle on distant star systems to defend us all.

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This bolo book is different from the previous ones, in that it heavily focuses on the humans side of the story, instead of the bolo's inner monologue. I've seen reviews online that say this makes it a bad bolo book, but I think that's unfair. The bolos are critical to the telling of this story, and you do hear from them. More than that, ultimately a point about the relationship between bolos and humans is being made that would be a lot harder to make if the story was told from the bolo side of the fence.

This was a good book and I enjoyed it.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/Keith_Laumer/Bolos_6_Cold_Steel.html

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J. Steven York J. Steven York is the author of the second Generation X novel, Generation X: Crossroads, as well as two nonfiction books, a zillion or so magazine articles, and a bunch of short fiction that has appeared in magazines such as Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tomorrow, Pulphouse, VB Tech and anthologies, including show more a novel-on-a-disk included with Sierra's Outpost 2 (1997) and Missionforce Cyberstorm (1996) set in Sierra's Starsiege combat robot universe. He lives in Lincoln City, Oregon, with his wife, romance writer and Star Trek author Christina F. York. They share their writers hovel with his collection of 400-plus toy robots. show less

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Cold Steel

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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