4 books by David Drake
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Overview: David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.
Genre: Science Fiction
Dinosaurs & a Dirigible
All five of David Drake’s time travel stories collected for the first time in one volume, including dinosaur tale "Time Safari."
Henry Vickers’s job is to keep clients safe from the dinosaurs they’re hunting. That’s the easy part. The hard part is to keep the clients safe from themselves and each other. Men with enough money to go into the past to hunt the largest land animals of all time are powerful and self-willed. Some make an effort to act like decent human beings, but more are selfish, stupid, sadistic–or all three together. The few women are likely to be worse.
Vickers doesn’t expect rich people to understand the dangers of where they are and what they’re doing; he doesn’t expect them to be competent with the powerful rifles they carry; and he particularly doesn’t expect them to be reasonable. He treats his clients’ behavior as he does the rain and the baking heat–the cost of having a life he loves and which he couldn’t afford in any other way.
But no matter how detached Vickers tries to be, eventually there are moral questions that he can’t ignore. And when Henry Vickers starts to behave like a human being instead of a hunting guide, things get really dangerous.
And in a complete change of pace: "Travellers." An airship is crossing the United States in 1897 in search of the weird and the wonderful. The two teenagers aboard know that the airship’s captain is a great scientist and inventor–but they don’t know how much more he is also.
Old Nathan
The forces of evil are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and red-handed men—but first they’ll have to overcome Old Nathan the Wizard.
He doesn’t claim much for his magical powers, but they’re real enough for what they are—and besides, he hasn’t forgotten how to use his long flintlock rifle ….
Enter the gritty, realistic world of Old Nathan, a backwoodsman who talks to animals and says he’ll face The Devil himself-and who in the end will have to face The Devil in very fact.
Patriots
Greenwood is a beautiful, pastoral world, recently settled by a small number of rugged individualists, each of whom has his or her idea of how things should be run. But the lawyers, politicians, and bean-counters of some older colonies see Greenwood simply as potential profits, discounting the prior claims of the settlers. And when the Earth government decides to send an army to rule the colony by force, the settlers must unite or lose their livelihoods and maybe their lives. Mark Maxwell, taking a year off to travel the frontier planets before being forced to join his father’s law firm, runs into Yerby Bannock, a Greenwood settler with enthusiasms as big as all outdoors, and Yerby’s sister, Amy, who is coming home from school. Swept along by force of circumstance, these unlikely allies find themselves working together to save Greenwood. There’s action aplenty, as Yerby, who feels that most problems can be settled by brute force, tempered by the native common sense of Army and the shrewd counsel of Mark, struggles to weld the fractious Greenwood pioneers into a unity that can withstand the combined might of the Old World.
All the Way to the Gallows
The author of the bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series now takes deadly aim at readers’ funny bones with goblin paratroopers, hard-boiled space cops saddled with a politically correct alien supervisor, rough, tough mercenary elves trying to get rid of an obnoxiously vocal magic talisman, and much more.
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