Series
Bolo
Keith Laumer, David Weber, Linda Evans, Bill Fawcett, William H. Keith, Jr., S. M. Stirling, Dean Wesley Smith, J. Steven York, Andrew Keith, Christopher Stasheff, David Drake, Hank Davis, John Ringo, Larry Dixon, Mark Thies, Mercedes Lackey, Robert R. Hollingsworth & Todd McCaffrey · 8 novels · 14 novellas · 7 novelettes · 7 short stories · 3 collections · 7 anthologies · 1960–2010
The Bolo books, created by Keith Laumer and continued by a rotating roster of collaborators including David Weber and S. M. Stirling, are set in a shared military science-fiction universe built around sentient, increasingly self-aware tank-like war machines called Bolos. Individual volumes range from Laumer's original story collections to later novels and anthologies exploring Bolos across different wars and eras, unified by the premise rather than a single continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
- Bethany Martins(3 works)
- Bolos(11 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Bolo at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s4
- 1970s3
- 1980s3
- 1990s23
- 2000s12
- 2010s1
Shape
8 novels · 14 novellas · 7 novelettes · 7 short stories · 3 collections · 7 anthologies
18 authors
reads like:science fictionrobotsother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 55% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book42 of 46 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Hold Until Relieveddarkest
- Rogue Bolobrightest
- A Brief Technical History of the Bolocalmest
- The Stars Must Waitmost intense