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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: Autour d'Honor

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Sea Without a Shore (The Republic of Cinnabar Navy series #10)

    First published in 2019 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 17, November 2015

    First published in 2015 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2014 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1988 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Forge (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 1)
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    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Hammer (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 2)
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    First published in 1992 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Far Side of the Stars (The Republic of Cinnabar Navy)
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    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume One

    First published in 2006 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Seas of Venus

    First published in 2004 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Sword (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 5)

    First published in 1995 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hammer's Slammers

    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1983 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An honorable defense
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  • Cover of: Voyage across the stars
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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
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September 16, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Talis record