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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.

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

Born 1945

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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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