4.0
Hammer's Slammers
by David Drake
This 'breakthrough' novel introduces the mercenary band that fans have long known and loved, that of 'Hammer's Slammers', the toughest group of men and their tanks ever to grace paper. This novel contains several short stories which were Drake's first major sales, and has come to define the standard for the 'Military Science Fiction' genre.
FictionScience Fiction
RELEASED1983
PUBLISHERPenguin Publishing Group
LENGTH274
LANGUAGEEN
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/
4.0
Hammer's Slammers
by David Drake
This 'breakthrough' novel introduces the mercenary band that fans have long known and loved, that of 'Hammer's Slammers', the toughest group of men and their tanks ever to grace paper. This novel contains several short stories which were Drake's first major sales, and has come to define the standard for the 'Military Science Fiction' genre.
FictionScience Fiction
RELEASED1983
PUBLISHERPenguin Publishing Group
LENGTH274
LANGUAGEEN
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/
