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David Drake

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.

http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/

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American author of science fiction and fantasy literature (1945–2023)

Born 1945

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  • Cover of: Birds of Prey

    First published in 2011 — 2 editions
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    First published in 2019 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Hammers Slammers

    First published in 1984 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: With the Lightnings: Hardcover Special Edition

    First published in 1998 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1986 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1984 — 2 editions
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    Cover of edition worldturnedupsid0000unse First published in 2005 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Servant of the Dragon

    First published in 2004 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Master of the Cauldron: The Sixth Book in the Epic Saga of 'Lord of the Isles'

    First published in 2006 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Servant of the Dragon: The Third Book in the Epic Saga of 'Lord of the Isles'

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  • Cover of: Lord of the Isles

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  • Cover of: Lord of Isles Series: Lord of the Isles, Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, Mistress of the Catacombs, Goddess of the Ice Realm, Master of the Cauldron

    First published in 2018 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Auntie Catherine's Kitchen - Vol. 1: Soups, Salads, Main Dishes, Sides

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  • Cover of: Bullet Points

    First published in 2021 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Legions of Fire: The Books of the Elements, Volume One

    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Chipper of Oakton Villa

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American author of science fiction and fantasy literature (1945–2023)

Born 1945

Subjects

Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Space warfare, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Life on other planets, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Interplanetary voyages, End of the world, Imaginary wars and battles, Fantasy fiction, Adele Mundy (Fictitious character), Daniel Leary (Fictitious character), Europe, fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Magicians, Romans, Monsters, Ricimer, piet (fictitious character), fiction

Places

Europe, Chicago, Crouch End, Great Britain, London, Moon Base, Pine Dunes, Quebec, Venus (Planet)

People

Adele Mundy (Fictitious character), Daniel Leary (Fictitious character), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alsophocus, Arthur King, Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, Rudyard Kipling

Time

2000, 2065, 20th century, To 1066, the far future

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May 11, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
May 11, 2022 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
September 16, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Talis record