David Drake
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Description
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.
Books
The forge
Focusing on the Vaiden family of northern Alabama, The Forge depicts "the changes forced on life in the South by the war and its aftermath."--Intro., p.x.
Tapestries
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
An anthology of short fiction expanding and elaborating on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, edited by Ramsey Campbell. New Tales collects the following stories: "Crouch End" by Stephen King "The Star Pools" by A. A. Attanasio "The Second Wish" by Brian Lumley "Dark Awakening" by Frank Belknap Long "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein "The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes "Than Curse the Darkness" by David Drake "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell
Killer
"The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he's been snared in a toxic web of pathology. Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life" --
The heretic
"Duisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism"--Dust jacket flap.
Birds of Prey
Two stories featuring the most intriguing women in the DC Universe--the hard-hitting Black Canary, Oracle (the former Batgirl), Catwoman, and the Huntress.
The dragon lord
Synopsis - In the service of the crook-shouldered King Rynert, Aldric has been dishonoured and sold into the Drusalan Empire in an example of Machiavellian statecraft. Here in the hated Empire, he lies at the mercy of those who have loathed him and all he stands for, for generations. But Aldric is a High-Clan Lord, skilled in the art of the sword, a scholar and an expert in Art Matic, a warrior who has seen the best and seen the worst. And even in the Drusalan Empire there are allies which include Ymareth, The Dragon.
The far side of the stars
Lt. Leary and Adele Mundy team up once again with the familiar crew of the Sissie to once foil the plans of the Alliance - but not as active RCN ship nor crew. The Sissie has been removed from RCN service and sold to a rich pair of wogs and Lt. Leary and crew have been hired as civilians to crew her on a voyage to the mainly unexplored and thinly populated north in search of relics and adventure. The voyage is full of mystery, a lot of action and a touch of the paranormal - which is all meat to Lt. Leary and the crew of the Sissie. Written by David Drake, a master writer who never fails to hold a reader's attention, this book is a highly enjoyable read.
Body armor
In the future, war is still hell, and man retains one inescapable impulse: survival. As technology advances, the tools of battle-the strategies, the weaponry, the scope of destruction-also advance. Here are eleven riveting tales of the future's battlefields-the high-tech hardware of tomorrow's wars, the bare emotions of tomorrow's warriors-from the celebrated masters of science fiction, including... C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Gordon R. Dickson, Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman.
All the Way to the Gallows
This is a collection of humorous stories in all the various configurations of humor; light, dark and most everything in between. They range between sci fi and fantasy and there is many a good read amongst them. Enjoy.
Surface Action
Most boys, at least back when I was young, would love to be cowboys or soldiers. In our play, there was no blood and when we "killed" our playmates, they came right back to life and vied to return the favor during the next battle. It was harmless fun that all of we little rascals loved. In the day of this story, Venus has been colonized and our Earth is a blazing star due to man's own carelessness with nuclear weapons - which are outlawed on Venus. Johnny Gordon is a Senator's son whose play was mostly solitairey and on a advanced computer program which was designed specifically for him by his beloved Uncle Dan, A commander in one of the mercenary forces (there are no government militaries) that are joined with specific city domes for mutual support. The program(s) Johnny played/trained on were highly realistic and factual, as Johnny soon learns as his Uncle Dan offers him a place at his side and he learns the harsh reality of war. Another great story by Master Author David Drake.