Bolo Rising

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Summary: Grade A reading
Review: A great read, probably the best exemple of what a Bolo is and what it stands for.

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Summary: Great action, scale of 1 to 10, a good 8
Review: A mark XXX111 bolo, the ultimate fighting machine. Fast and suspensfull book, following the bolo adventures. Lots of action, and suspense, couldn't put it down. Read all night, to the wife's amazement. Hector sure was a fighter, and used past great battles as a guide. Saved the planet, but. Oh well you read it. Don

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Summary: [e-mail]
Review: I have read three of Kieth Laumer's books on Bolos. Each of the books I have read has kept me on the edge of my seat. Kieth Laumer stimulated both my imagination as to the possiblities of AI computers and my emotions about both the Bolos and humans that each story has evolved around. "Bolo Rising" is an excellent book which has kept up with the tradition Kieth Laumer has set down in his other three books of this series I have read. I was routing for Hector through out the book and I was saddened when he did not make an escape with the rest of the people who left the battered world of Cloud.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: I was really looking foward to a second part of Bolo Brigade and was saddened when I found this was not it. :(

But I did continue to read the book and found it just as entertaining. The story brings up Sparticus a few times but really does not give much in the way of similarities.

The new alien invaders in this book are entertaining: Machines just as smart as if not superior to the Bolo. Leaves you reading the book seeing if the big ole tank could suceed against the enormous odds placed against it. The final battle made you believe the whole human/bolo combination hopeless in light of the alien machines awesome power.

Bolos may die.....but not easily!

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Summary: Good, solid, traditional, BOLO book
Review: It's a good read for BOLO lovers. Fast paced, with a bit of 'Berserkers' thrown in, but retaining the feel of 'HONOR' that you get from all the BOLO books.

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Summary: GOOD ACTION---WHAT DO YOU EXPECT
Review: THE BOLO LEDGEN CONTINUES! THE PAIRING OF LAUMER AND KEITH WAS STARTED WITH "BOLO RISING" AND HAS CONTINUED WITH THIS EFFORT. THE CONCEPT OF A SELF-AWARE BATTLE MACHINE IS NOT NEW, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE "BOLO" CONCEPT IS THE MOST ENTERTAINING. THE ONLY DRAWBACK TO THIS BOOK IS THAT IT IS A NEW STORY AND NOT THE COMPLETION OF "BOLO BRIGADE", I HOPE THAT THIS PAIRING DOES CONTINUE/COMPLETE ONE OF THESE STORY LINES IN TH NEAR FITURE.

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Summary: Bolo fallen
Review: The early Bolo stories were touching, to say the least. Self aware, highly intelligent tanks which applied themselfselves selflessly to their duty. This book has gone a long way from there. From a military point it is unbelievable, even in its most basic tenets. David Drake assumes vast strides in technology and comes up with 170 ton tanks; well okay so it is SF. Here we see a 32000 ton "tank". If there is one thing military history has taught about armour it is to use tanks together in highly mobile formations. You only use very heavy stuff if you want to invite defeat. Using armour out of support range is to invite defeat. Here a single damaged Bolo takes on an enemy which not only was victorious but has had a year on planet to replenish itself, and and has vast numbers of highly intelligent weapons under a unified command. Please!

The first 150 pages consist of how deep humans have fallen and their bickering and complaining (reading one in ten words is quite enough). In the rest of the book there is action. This can perhaps be best illustrated by the Bolo's fight in the closing pages. The Bolo, in its own words, fires "fusillade after shrieking fusillade" with "all remaining weapons". A little later it "redoubles its hammerings" in spite of increasing damage. A little later onwards it "gathers its power". All in all the book reads like one of Ron Hubbard's efforts.

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Summary: The Jaguar Can Strike At Any Moment
Review: The story starts on a jogging path in Boston, Massachusetts. A woman's body is found, head decapitated and the rest of her ripped to shreds. This body is much like the body of another woman, killed only 21 days before, neither woman had an identity. Lt. Firecaster of the Boston PD is on the case to find someone who is calling himself, "The Jaguar." When a woman comes to the Police for a break-in at her apartment, nothing is stolen, but something has been moved. He went through her underwear.. "sick pervert" is what everyone called him. Exactly 21 days after the jogger's death, another woman was killed, the same way, decapitated, and ripped to shreds. The police then realized.. The Jaguar runs on a cycle. 3 weeks or 21 days. That's how long they had to track him before another innocent woman was killed... Firecaster becomes intimate with the woman who's house was broken into, and he cares not about his job with the police, but for the woman he loves, who is next in the 21 day cycle... Terror breaks loose as a killer prowls for his next victim.... She may even be... YOU

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Summary: Bolo fallen
Review: This book exceled among all others in my line of favorites. I have read various war books. Such titles are Team Yankee, Red Storm Rising, Hunt for Red October...etc. This book combines plot, and scenery to capture your atention, in even the first 3 pages. This book, being staged in the future, refers to past incedents, uses things that we are accustomed to, and explains things we otherwsie wouldn't understand in great detail. This book surprised me, and kept me on the edge of my seat, the only reason I put it down, was because school and sleep kept inturupting me. I recommend this book to all those who like adventure, suspense, and an all around greatly written book.

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Summary: Totally Gripping, Heart Pounding action and adventure
Review: This book exceled among all others in my line of favorites. I have read various war books. Such titles are Team Yankee, Red Storm Rising, Hunt for Red October...etc. This book combines plot, and scenery to capture your atention, in even the first 3 pages. This book, being staged in the future, refers to past incedents, uses things that we are accustomed to, and explains things we otherwsie wouldn't understand in great detail. This book surprised me, and kept me on the edge of my seat, the only reason I put it down, was because school and sleep kept inturupting me. I recommend this book to all those who like adventure, suspense, and an all around greatly written book.