Bolo Officer Donal Ragnor's tendency to talk back to brass had gotten him assigned to the backwater colony worlds on the edge of the galaxy. And his new superior regarded him as useless, since there was no enemy to worry about--or so they thought.

The enemy has struck the human colony of Cloud with an attack so deadly that even the world's sole Bolo, a Mark XXXIII Mod HCT named Hector, has been overwhelmed. One human, however, refuses to accept defeat. Major Jamie Graham will free his companions or die trying. It's the story of Spartacus reborn in steel, a daring slave revolt against impossible odds.

Unrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaced man in that most human of endeavors: war. In these scintillating tales of the ever-advancing Dinochrome Brigade, the most effective weapons ever devised ell their own story in action-packed chronicles of extra-terrestrial adventure. Bolo: fighting in proud combat as monster saviors of their human creators.

Chronicles the history of the BOLO, a futuristic man-made machine that symbolizes brute force, defiance, and rigid will and is responsible for defending humanity against an invading alien group. Original.

The author continues the history of the Bolo--gigantic robot tanks controlled by tireless electronic brains programmed to admit no possibility of defeat--in four short novels, one of them published here for the first time.

SOL-0045, a bolo on a mission that would end the civil war, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a young boy stands in his way and SOL begins to question whether or not bolos have souls.

Bolos, gigantic tanks with enough firepower for an army controlled by a human-level artificial intelligence, are programmed to defend their creators at all costs. The Bolos battle on star systems across the galaxy to defend humans. And though the Bolos are formed from cold steel, they have warmer hearts than many of the flesh-and-blood creatures they protect. (July)