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A Time to Kill

David Weber

First published March 1997
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Bolo

Years after human and alien forces destroyed each other in a vicious interstellar war, a desperate group of human refugees settles on an uninhabited planet which had once been the site of a fierce battle; but when an equally devastated group of alien refugees lands elsewhere on the planet the ancient hatreds arise again. A superpowerful sentient fighting machine abandoned since the previous war awakens when it detects the aliens and joins the humans in an attack to eliminate the hated aliens.

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