The Hammer

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

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

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