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BOLOS: HONOR OF THE REGIMENT
CREATED BY KEITH LAUMER
EDITED BY BILL FAWCETT
Fout! Onbekende schakeloptie-instructie.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and
any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ┬й 1993 by Bill Fawcett and Associates

"Lost Legion" copyright ┬й 1993 by S.M. Stirling,
"Camelot" copyright ┬й 1993 by S.N. Lewitt,
"The Legacy of Leonidas" copyright ┬й 1993 by J. Andrew Keith,
"Ploughshare" copyright ┬й 1993 by Todd Johnson,
"Ghosts" copyright ┬й 1993 by Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg,
"The Ghost of Resartus" copyright ┬й 1993 by Christopher Stasheff,
"Operation Desert Fox" copyright ┬й 1993 by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon, and
"As Our Strength Lessens" copyright ┬й 1993 by David Drake.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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ISBN: 0-671-72184-4

Cover art by Paul Alexander

First printing, September 1993

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FOR THE HONOR OF THE REGIMENT
My forty-seven pairs of flint-steel roadwheels are in depot condition. Their tires of spun
ber~yl~lium monocrystal, woven to deform rather than compress, all have 97% or better of their
fabric unbroken. The immediate terrain is semi-arid. The briefing files inform me this is typical
of the planet. My track links purr among themselves as they grind through scrub vegetation and
the friable soil, carrying me to my assigned mission.
There is a cataclysmic fuel-air explosion to the east behind me. The glare is visible for 5.3
seconds, and the ground will shake for many minutes as shock waves echo through the planetary
mantle.
Had my human superiors so chosen, I could be replacing Saratoga at the spearhead of the
attack.