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With a veteran's eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of tank combat in his Hammer's Slammers fiction. The Slammers are neither cartoon heroes nor propaganda villains; rather they are competent professionals engaged in a deadly business. The inevitable conflicts between policy, necessity, and human nature make Drake's Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling. This is the first of a three volume set presenting for the first time the entire genre-defining Slammers series in a uniform trade paperback set, with new introductions by major SF figures and new afterwords by David Drake. Each volume will also include a Slammers story not collected in previous Slammer's books.
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"Fans of Drake's edgy stories of a mercenary tank regiment in a future not all that different from our present will rejoice [at the publication of] the entire series in three volumes. Drake, a Vietnam vet who served in the Blackhorse Regiment, uses prose as cold and hard as the metal alloy of a tank to portray the men and women of Hammer's Regiment. . . . In his depiction of combat, Drake rivals Crane and Remarque." —Publishers Weekly, reviewing the Night Shade hardcover edition
Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now bestselling author, David Drake tells a military story like no other. His readers recognize that he can take them where no one else can, with gut-wrenching description that puts them face-to-face with the enemy, and in the midst of the action right on the battlefield. He helped create the audience for mercenary military science fiction with his best-selling "Hammer's Slammers" books. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets.
The Complete Hammer Slammers Volume 1 Hammer Slammers Volumes eBook David Drake
David Drake is in my opinion the absolute best combat science fiction writer that I have ever had the privilege to read. He can write from the perspective that very few other writers can in this field. Because he himself served as a soldier in combat. Which is something only a very small amount of writers throughout history can be accredited for actually having seen combat themselves. Some of the most well known books about war was actually written by those who never even wore a uniform or if they did they themselves never saw combat up close. I find David Drakes books to be a truly fantastic read because I myself served in the Army. I did Three tours in Iraq and then fully Retired. I am 100% disabled so I have plenty of time to do and read all the things I never seemed to before. So when I read his works I know exactly what the characters are going through and what it's really like to be there first hand. The biggest difference that puts his writing above all the rest is the fact that most writers portray us soldiers to be completely dead inside and that's just not how it really is. Yes it's true that many of us to include myself do come back changed in some ways or maybe even in many ways than what we was before. But that's the true reality of being in War. Doing what needs to or must be done. So we will have the chance to return home to the ones we love and care about. David Drakes books helped me greatly in dealing with what I had to do and the things I had seen. I have always been a fairly avid reader and his books even though fiction showed me from a different perspective that I wasn't alone in the way I felt or reacted in certain situations. Many of us soldiers put up a front for each other like it doesn't bother us so it shouldn't bother them. That works good while you're in the heat of battle but very few actually know what to do with those feelings afterwards. That's usually when we would just bottle it all up and push it down low. But there always will come a day when you can't hold it in any longer and that's when bad things happen. Now I'm not saying we should sit around after a combat mission and sing songs while holding hands. What I am saying is that sometimes it's a good thing to sit down with a battle buddy and get things off your chest. Most people to include soldiers don't like to think or act like that works. But it does work. David Drakes books opened my eyes to the fact that I am not the only one that still tries to think that I must be the only one that thinks like his Slammers do. I love science fiction and I was fortunate to read my first Hammers Slammers book during my second tour in Iraq and it helped me in more ways than I can count. For those that have never served or served but wasn't in combat his books can give you a perspective view of what combat is really like. Sure it's far into the future but if you like science fiction your love his works. It doesn't matter wether it was two thousand years ago, present or two thousand years into the future. Soldiers are all the same on the inside.Product details
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The Complete Hammer Slammers Volume 1 Hammer Slammers Volumes eBook David Drake Reviews
This is not quite...complete. This is a collection of stories from the first Hammer’s Slammers book and a couple of short stories that were tacked into some of the other novellas that were not quite as long as needed (like Paying the Piper). It is a good collection and a good introduction to the Slammers. There are two other volumes that have the rest of the novella and novel length books.
Could it be true? The complete Hammer's Slammers series from start to finish, including tales I had not heard of before? Indeed it is, and worth the money for all three volumes. If you like military science fiction then this is the definitive series. Unlike a lot of science-fiction combat, this focuses entirely on ground combat action, with no space ship battles. There's also no magic or "Force" or anything like that, so no space wizards show up to make everything weird.
Worth the money.
Bought this book when I realized that I had never read early David Drake, and thought I needed to rectify that lack. While an older work that might leave some newer readers behind, I found it to be a very well written series of tales that struck at the heart of warfare, set in the future. The Slammers are a mercenary armored regiment using the best heavy tanks available in their time. They are not saints, nor are they always sinners. They fulfill their contracts, no matter the cost to themselves or others. Even the heroes of the unit have their serious flaws, and often the populations of the worlds they fight on pay the price of the mercenaries shortcomings. Great read, written by someone who has seen the dark side of war in the real thing. Highly recommended.
Drake uses futuristic military fiction to show, at a gut level, why nobody in their right mind should ever want to be involved in warfare at any level. He describes what it's like to an extent that you can hear it, feel it, and smell it. The Slammers are very good at what they do, all have good reasons for why they joined, and none of them get through it without permanent harm to themselves, one way or another. War may be necessary at times, probably because one or more sides don't understand what it involves, but it isn't a good thing in any way at all...even if you are very, very good at it, like the Slammers are.
Reading the short story "Under The Hammer" in a science fiction anthology in 1984 introduced me to writer David Drake and to "Hammer's Slammers", an armored regiment for hire to serve any faction in a planetary ground war--if that faction can pay the contracted fees. Colonel Alois Hammer is its commander. I read this excellent collection of science fiction short stories a couple of years later while I was stationed in Alaska, although I'd read at least one other of the Hammer's regiment stories in the interim. These well-crafted short stories feature various members of the regiment in one battle or the other, and Col. Hammer is often a minor or abstract character in several of these pieces, although the author includes the tale of how the regiment came into being under the inspired command of its namesake.
David Drake has also written novels in which Hammer and some of his officers and troopers encounter other combat challenges, but they all trace their defining experience back to serving in Hammer's Slammers.
Mr. Drake served as a soldier in the U.S. Army's 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970, and he used these often gritty experiences as inspiration for the Hammer stories. It's a great read!
David Drake is in my opinion the absolute best combat science fiction writer that I have ever had the privilege to read. He can write from the perspective that very few other writers can in this field. Because he himself served as a soldier in combat. Which is something only a very small amount of writers throughout history can be accredited for actually having seen combat themselves. Some of the most well known books about war was actually written by those who never even wore a uniform or if they did they themselves never saw combat up close. I find David Drakes books to be a truly fantastic read because I myself served in the Army. I did Three tours in Iraq and then fully Retired. I am 100% disabled so I have plenty of time to do and read all the things I never seemed to before. So when I read his works I know exactly what the characters are going through and what it's really like to be there first hand. The biggest difference that puts his writing above all the rest is the fact that most writers portray us soldiers to be completely dead inside and that's just not how it really is. Yes it's true that many of us to include myself do come back changed in some ways or maybe even in many ways than what we was before. But that's the true reality of being in War. Doing what needs to or must be done. So we will have the chance to return home to the ones we love and care about. David Drakes books helped me greatly in dealing with what I had to do and the things I had seen. I have always been a fairly avid reader and his books even though fiction showed me from a different perspective that I wasn't alone in the way I felt or reacted in certain situations. Many of us soldiers put up a front for each other like it doesn't bother us so it shouldn't bother them. That works good while you're in the heat of battle but very few actually know what to do with those feelings afterwards. That's usually when we would just bottle it all up and push it down low. But there always will come a day when you can't hold it in any longer and that's when bad things happen. Now I'm not saying we should sit around after a combat mission and sing songs while holding hands. What I am saying is that sometimes it's a good thing to sit down with a battle buddy and get things off your chest. Most people to include soldiers don't like to think or act like that works. But it does work. David Drakes books opened my eyes to the fact that I am not the only one that still tries to think that I must be the only one that thinks like his Slammers do. I love science fiction and I was fortunate to read my first Hammers Slammers book during my second tour in Iraq and it helped me in more ways than I can count. For those that have never served or served but wasn't in combat his books can give you a perspective view of what combat is really like. Sure it's far into the future but if you like science fiction your love his works. It doesn't matter wether it was two thousand years ago, present or two thousand years into the future. Soldiers are all the same on the inside.
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