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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.

http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/

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American author of science fiction and fantasy literature

Born 1945

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    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1987 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dangerous vegetables

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American author of science fiction and fantasy literature

Born 1945

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Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Space warfare, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Life on other planets, Adele Mundy (Fictitious character), Daniel Leary (Fictitious character), FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Imaginary wars and battles, Leary, Daniel (Fictitious character), FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, Leary, Daniel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Science Fiction, Adele Mundy (Fictional character), American Short stories, American War stories, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Daniel Leary (Fictional character), Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Heroes, Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction

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Adele Mundy (Fictitious character), Daniel Leary (Fictitious character)

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May 11, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
May 11, 2022 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
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