The Hammer, S.M. Stirling
The Hammer, S.M. Stirling
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The Hammer

Author: S.M. Stirling, David Drake

Narrator: Franklin Pierson

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

A monolithic computer is using General Raj Whitehall to reunite the planet and start humanity back on the road to technological achievement, but armies of musket- and saber-wielding barbarians stand in the way.

About S.M. Stirling

A well-regarded author of alternate history science-fiction novels, S.M. Stirling has written more than twenty-five books, including acclaimed collaborations with Anne McCaffrey, Jerry Pournelle, and David Drake. His most recent novels are T2: Infiltrator, The Peshawar Lancers, and the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

Outstanding military scifi featuring future wars, mercenaries, tanks and people. David Drake served with the 11th armored cavalry, the Blackhorse Regiment in Vietnam. Having been at the pointed end of the stick, his military fiction is quite believable. Mr. Drake has retired from writing novels beca......more

This was good to a great collection of the short fiction Hammer's Slammers, including a new story just for this volume. Like most collections, the quality of the writing is pretty up/down throughout a lot of it, but I never found myself skipping any stories or wanting to skip any. Most of the volume......more

Goodreads review by Mark

I probably should have researched this volume a little more before reading. I was under the assumption that it was a compilation of a continuing series on Hammer's Slammers. Instead, it is a series of largely stand alone short stories. I had previously read Across the Stars by David Drake, which was......more

Goodreads review by John

Simply some of the best military fiction I've ever read. I first read the stories as a teenager, and later re-read them in this collection as an adult. A lot of military fiction comes across with the attitude that only soldiers know how to get things done, and that if the civilians would just get out......more