The Best-Selling Series That Rocketed David Drake to Military Science
Fiction Stardom.
The First of Three Volumes Collecting the Complete Series.
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.
"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
