• mojofrododojo
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    10 months ago

    the Bolo series.

    ?

    iirc the tankies term goes back to the 80s in the UK.

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      10 months ago

      Bolo is a series of (mostly) short stories about giant ai tanks. Keith Laumer created it and other authors have dipped their toes in as well.

      I’d never heard the term tankie before I joined Lemmy so it just sounds more “whimsical” to me than is intended.

      • mojofrododojo
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        10 months ago

        ty for the deets. I heard it first when I lived in the UK in the 90s.