Bolo!

Bolos. For a millennium and a half, they have been humanity's warriors. They have fought Man's battles, died in Man's wars, battled to save Man's children, even from his own kind. They have guarded Man's worlds ... and avenged Man's defeats. Tireless, infinitely patient, infinitely deadly, Bolos are the most fearsome fighting machines ever developed. The most lethal artificial intelligences in history. Yet they are more than that. They are not merely the weapons of their Human commanders, but their comrades. Brothers and sisters in arms, who all too often die together. But Bolos and their commanders do not die easily. Mankind's enemies have learned the price of a Bolo's death. And if Bolos and their commanders do not always die in victory, this much has always been true. They do not surrender. And they never - ever - quit. Miles to Go. The first fully sentient Bolo was an unauthorized experiment the Bolo Brigade had forgotten about. But Bolos do not stay lost forever, especially when they have a poet's soul ... The Traitor. In the entire history of the Bolo Brigade, no Bolo had ever deserted in the face of the enemy. Until now. Yet a Bolo's reasons for desertion may not be quite the same as anyone else's. With Your Shield. In the teeth of Mankind's most deadly - and losing - war, an obsolete Bolo from a second-line training command teaches yet another Human commander the glory and the bitter, bitter price of the Human-Bolo bond. A Time to Kill. Madness. One of Humanity's darkest nightmares is the possibility that their deadly fighting machines may go rogue, but perhaps the Bolos should have worried more that Humanity might do the same. Yet even from the depths of shared madness, a Bolo of the Final War fights to save Humanity not simply from its enemies, but from itself.Weber, David is the author of 'Bolo! ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780743498722 and ISBN 0743498720.