Set in the far future, the Slammers are a group of mercenaries who sell their talent for destruction and unwavering loyalty to the highest bidder. Hammer's Slammers is a world of military SF created by the brilliance of David Drake, who wrote many of the stories during the Vietnam War. This edition is the complete collection of all the books in the way that David Drake intended them to be read. The series explores themes such as the future of warfare, the moral ambiguity among the Slammers, and the effects of war on people's psyche and personality.
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The book includes medium content warnings for violence, trauma, and the psychological effects of war.
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With a veteran 's eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of Vietnam-era tank combat in his Hammer's Slammers fiction. Upon this tactical foundation, Drake uses historical metaphor to provide a rich and detailed future-history that is both unique and strangely familiar. The characters that make up the Hammer's Regiment 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 are often at the forefront of the Slammers narratives, and it is this rich fusion of elements that makes Drake's Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling.
This first volume collects the existing short fiction, along with the background material from the original Slammers collection. The new story in this volume, "A Death in Peacetime," chronicles an important event in the Hammer's Regiment history… an event that has been implied, but never fully explained… until now.
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The series that started me in military science fiction. I have to say David Drake's writing and style helped and inspired me to be an author.
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About the Author:
David Drake was attending Duke Univeristy Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. Besides the best-selling Hammer's Slammers series, his books for Baen include the popular Leary of the RCN series, with seven volumes so far: With the Lightnings; Lt. Leary, Commanding, The Far Side of the Stars; The Way to Glory; Some Golden Harbor, When the Tide Rises and In the Stormy Red Sky. His Lord of the Isles fantasy novels for Tor are genre best sellers. Among his other Baen titkes are Ranks of Bronze, All the Way to thre Gallows, Redliners, and many more.
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