David Drake, Editor, David Drake, Author Baen Books $22 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-87881-8
Veteran military SF author Drake (the Hammer's Slammers series) launches an unlikely pair of star warriors at the far-future and evil Alliance of Free Stars, which is locked in mortal combat with the Republic of Cinnabar over the wealthy trading...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-86468-2
As the protagonists in this sequel to Lord of the Isles (1997) journey through multiple worlds, Drake conjures a sense of enchantment--and danger--with original and convincing settings, situations and characters. Moreover, unlike too many fantasy...
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David Drake, Author Baen Books $20 (377p) ISBN 978-0-671-72192-3
Drake writes masterfully about future war in an environment that, if not dystopian, is clearly Hobbesian. Volume Six in the ``Hammer's Slammers'' series shows mercenary-turned-President Hammer keeping his army keen by hiring out elements of it to...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $15.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-93001-1
In the prologue that takes place in ""Another 1965,'' President John F. Kennedy proposes construction of a laser-protected space station, Fortress, that will keep international peace or at least avert nuclear war. The discovery of an alien's corpse...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $18.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-85197-2
Drake ( Surface Action ) enters a future originally mapped by SF master Henry Kuttner in ``Clash by Night,'' a 1943 novella-length story that is also printed here. earth having become a radioactive cinder, humanity has fled to a ``terraformed''...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $23.95 (415p) ISBN 978-0-312-85158-3
The author of Time Safari assembles an entertaining crew for this novel about a young mercenary's entrance into manhood. Ned Slade wants to make a name for himself, and a voyage on the spaceship Swift provides his opportunity. Captained by the...
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David Drake, Author Ace Books $18.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-441-00026-5
A thousand years after the Collapse, a galaxy-wide depression that killed billions, rival factions from Venus and Earth are poised to retake the stars--and the wealth to be gained from trafficking in the resources found there. Stephen Gregg is a...
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David Drake, Author Ace Books $19.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-441-00171-2
This successor to Igniting the Reaches is not one of Drake's better works. Drake is usually adept at choreographing battle scenes, but here narrator Jeremy Moore's rendition of combat makes every adventure seem like Julien Sorel's walk through...
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David Drake, Author Ace Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00329-7
In the far future, the human inhabitants of Venus are menaced by a tyrannical government on Earth. Much as Elizabethan England was menaced by Spain, in fact, for this novel concludes a trilogy (Igniting the Reaches; Through the Breach) based on the...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86245-9
A modern master of extraterrestrial military mayhem (Northworld, etc.) weighs in with a grand, roistering space opera based loosely on the exploits of American Revolutionary Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. In the 23rd century, two sets of...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85396-9
Primarily known for military SF, Drake (Fireships, etc.) shows a wider range in a genre fantasy with more suspense, action and horror than most. Clearly intended as the potential kickoff to a new series, this volume still resolves satisfactorily,...
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David Drake, Author . Tor $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-87387-5
In the fourth volume of Drake's ambitious high-fantasy saga Lord of the Isles (after 1999's Servant of the Dragon), conflicts continue but few are resolved. Prince Garric of Haft, the first true ruler of the Kingdom of the Isles in a...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $26.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-312-86469-9
The Lord of the Isles saga (Lord of the Isles; Queen of Demons) progresses little in this volume. Garric still settles into his reign, advised by the spirit of his ancestor Carus and by his friends, especially low-key love interest Liane. A new...
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David Drake, Author Tor Books $25.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-312-87496-4
David Drake's padded sixth entry in his Lord of the Isles series, Master of the Cauldron, takes young Garric-or-Reise, an innkeeper's son now Regent of Haft, on a royal progress to solidify Haft's overlordship of Sandrakkan, a restless province Haft
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David Drake. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2079-7
This imaginative and fast-paced follow-up to 2010's Roman fantasy The Legions of Fire describes a sorcerous threat to the very foundations of reality. When Sen. Gaius Alphenus Saxa stages a religious play, the spectacle is interrupted by visions of...
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David Drake. Baen, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3815-8
In the ninth book of Drake's The RCN Series (after 2011's What Distant Deeps), Captain Daniel Leary and information savant Adele Mundy of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy are sent on a covert mission into Alliance space to uncover and potentially end a
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David Drake. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2080-3
The strong third installment of Drake’s Books of the Elements (after Out of the Waters) pits two powerful magicians against each other, catching the series protagonists—scholarly youth Varus; amazonian Alphena; their beautiful and fierce stepmother,
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David Drake. Tor, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2081-0
Drake concludes his Books of the Elements series (after Monsters of the Earth) with this involved and intriguing fourth tale of interwoven heroic journeys, both in the Waking World and in the Otherworld. The book opens in Carce, a fictional city and
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David Drake. Baen, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8147-1
There is something for all aficionados of military science fiction, regardless of what sort of military action they favor, in Drake's 11th RCN novel (after The Sea Without a Shore). Daniel Leary, captain of the spaceship Princess Cecile, is enjoying
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David Drake. Baen, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8276-9
Drake (the RCN series) is known for expert, long-running series of action novels, and this entertaining tale combining the feel of Arthurian legend with nifty far-future super science, though billed as a standalone, looks like the start of another...
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David Drake. Baen, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8313-1
Drake’s 12th RCN military space adventure (after Death’s Bright Day) is disappointingly slow-moving, as newly recruited officer Roy Olfetrie spends an inordinate amount of time attending to ship maintenance before the action begins. Roy has left the
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David Drake, Author Ace Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-84830-0
The latest military science fiction from Drake ( Hammer's Slammers ) supplies fast-paced adventure with convincing depth. A planet has been ``stolen,'' a vague concept here, and Commissioner Nils Hansen is assigned to investigate. The prime suspect...
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David Drake, Author . Baen $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3590-1
As the title suggests, most of the 14 stories (many of which first appeared in "shared universe" theme anthologies) in this collection from military SF master Drake are unrelenting in their depiction of the brutalities of war and its effect...
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David Drake, Author . Tor $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-87388-2
Best known for his military SF (Grimmer than Hell, etc.), Drake is less adept at epic fantasy, as shown in this overlong, wearying novel, the fifth installment in his Lord of the Isles series. Young Prince Garric, his beautiful blonde sister Sharina,
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David Drake, Author . Tor $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1259-4
At the start of Drake's solidly crafted fantasy, the first of a trilogy that will wrap up the author's Lord of the Isles series (Goddess of the Ice Realm
, etc.), Prince Garric is voyaging far in an effort to bring all the Isles under his...
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David Drake, Author . Baen $25 (373p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2080-1
In this rousing old-fashioned space opera, the latest to feature Cdr. Daniel O'Leary, Drake (Hammer's Slammers
) explores how a charismatic leader can inspire a ship's crew to glorious feats beyond the call of duty. O'Leary, now on...
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David Drake, Author . Night Shade $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59780-071-6
Best known for his hard-hitting military SF, Drake (Some Golden Harbor
) has also written some impressive fantasy and horror, as shown by this collection of 24 stories from all phases of his career. "Firefight" and "The Hunting Ground"
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David Drake, Author . Tor $25.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1260-0
Three strong women on separate missions dominate this slow-moving middle volume (after 2006's The Fortress of Glass
) in the trilogy slated to round out Drake's long-running Lord of the Isles series. Prince Garric's sister, Sharina,...
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David Drake, Author . Baen $25 (356p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5527-8
The fast-paced sixth adventure of Republic of Cinnabar Space Navy officers Daniel Leary and Lady Adele Mundy (after 2006's Some Golden Harbor
) finds Leary in a precarious position. When his patron falls ill and is replaced as chief of the Navy...
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David Drake, Author . Tor $25.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1261-7
Charming Prince Garric, determined Princess Sharina and rejuvenated wizardess Tenoctris were hoping for a bit of rest after their last adventure (2007's The Mirror of Worlds
), but circumstances conspire against them in this shallow conclusion...
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David Drake, Author . Tor $25.99 (367p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2078-0
Drake (Lord of the Isles
) vividly recreates the attitudes of patrician Romans in this fantasy tale, the first of a projected quartet. When Senator Saxa's bookish teenage son, Varus, suddenly channels a mystical prediction of the end of days...
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David Drake, Baen, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3366-8
The war between the Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance of Free Stars ended with RCN Captain Daniel Leary's stunning victory at Cacique, resulting in an uneasy peace. In the eighth offering of the popular RCN series, Leary receives orders to...
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David Drake, Author Baen Books $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-57875-6
No one who read Drake's first account of Lt. Daniel Leary's adventures in With the Lightnings will be surprised at the appearance of this sequel; that novel clearly launched a series. What is surprising, however, is the wonderfully strong quality of
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David Drake, Author Baen Books $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3547-5
Proponents of military solutions to political failures would do well to learn the lesson that David Drake has been teaching in his saga of Hammer's Slammers, a futuristic mercenary tank regimental combat team: every soldier on the ground is a de
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David Drake, Author Ace Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-36375-9
Earth has been destroyed by the nuclear folly of her children, and mankind's remnant now lives in dome-enclosed colonies on Venus. Will history repeat itself as warring factions threaten to reintroduce the scourge of nuclear weapons? Not if Johnnie...
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David Drake, Author, Gene Wolfe, Introduction by . Night Shade $35 (395p) ISBN 978-1-892389-69-5
Fans of Drake's edgy stories of a mercenary tank regiment in a future not all that different from our present will rejoice that Night Shade is issuing the entire series in three volumes. Drake, a Vietnam vet who served in the Blackhorse Regiment,
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Edited by David Afsharirad. Baen, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8058-0
While some visions of humanity’s future place us in a society of peace and plenty, many others take darker trajectories. This intriguing anthology explores the human race’s violent potential, with horrors such as the shock of psychological warfare...
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Tony Daniel and David Drake. Baen, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3670-9
The 10th installment in Daniel and Drake’s military SF series (after The Heretic) returns to the world of Duisberg, where technological innovation is prevented by an ancient computer worshiped as a god. Only Maj. Abel Dashian, who shares his brain...
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David Drake and John Lambshead. Baen, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8028-3\t
Writing from an outline by Drake, Lambshead neatly adapts real history to a science fiction framework in the second novel of the Citizen trilogy (after Into the Hinterlands). Among the far-flung colonial planets of the Cutter Stream, frustration...
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David Drake, Author, S. M. Stirling, Joint Author Baen Books $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-72037-7
Military officer Raj Whitehall is roaming through catacombs of the planet Bellevue when he discovers the computer Battle Central, a relic from the Golden Age before the planet's fall a thousand years earlierp. 171 . Central decides Raj is the one to
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David Drake, Author, Janet Morris, With Aspect $19.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-60153-5
The history-guarding commandos from ARC Riders return to thwart renegade time-travelers who are attempting to revise the past, this time in post-Soviet Russia, as well as along the first-century Roman frontier. While the ""Time Police"" theme is a...
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David Drake, Author, &. Stirling Drake, Author, Drake &. Stirling, Author Baen Books $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-671-57804-6
Military SF experts Stirling and Drake move into hardcover for the seventh entry in their General series (The Chosen, etc.), about soldier-statesman Raj Whitehall and the sentient computer, Center, influencing the course of civilization in a far-futu
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Newt Gingrich, Author, David Drake, Author, Marianne Gingrich, Author St. Martin's Press $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-93923-6
Gingrich, a Republican congressman from Georgia, outlines a plan for creating an ""opportunity society,'' founded in part on more space exploration and further advances in computer technology. His wide-ranging discussion also touches on such topics...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, &. Drake Flint, Author Baen Books $23 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-57817-6
Following up An Oblique Approach and In the Heart of Darkness, Flint and Drake continue their primitive warfare series set in a Roman empire that has been changed by the arrival of a time traveler. Known as ""Aide,"" this crystalline entity, when...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, David Drake, Joint Author Baen Books $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-57871-8
This exuberant romp of an alternate-history novel is the fourth volume of a series (Destiny's Shield, etc.) in which two contending super-beings from the far future try to determine humanity's fate through changing the 6th century A.D. The villain,...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, David Drake, Joint Author . Baen $22 (512p) ISBN 978-0-671-31996-0
High spirits and ingenuity mark the fifth volume in the Belisarius series from veteran Drake (Foreign Legions) and relative newcomer Flint (The Philosophical Strangler), who have devised an intriguing premise and developed it intelligently. Agents...
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David Drake. Baen, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8369-8
Though billed as a sequel to The Spark (2017), this above-average science fantasy adventure reads like the second part of a long series. The story is inspired by the 12th-century Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes, in which heroes faced all...
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