Hammer's Slammers

[jrudder]

Just did a search on this forum and there are no topics about Hammer's Slammers? Well, looks like I have something to do now. Has anyone read this series of short stories by David Drake? In my opinion they're a no-nonsense, gritty look at the harsh realities of war. There is no glorification or whitewashing of war in the stories; war is told as it is. Yes, that's a common theme now, but Drake is generally credited with helping to create the military science fiction genre.

 

[Blue Tyson]

Some of them, didn't like it much.

 

[Talysia]

I've read some David Drake, but not these.

 

[chrispenycate]

Yes, read and enjoyed, though they're not my favorite David Drake books.(Still, it's not my least favorite, either)
Actually, when I think about it, most of his series that I've really enjoyed have been collaborations (the Raj Whitehall books, the Belisarius series) rather than those he wrote on his own; I'm not quite sure what conclusion to draw from this.

 

[BAYLOR]

The character in the books were not nice people . Major Steuben was the worst of them, He was a Psycho.

 

[Vince W]

I‘ve read a couple of the Hammer’s Slammers novels and they were fine, but Drake is in no way credited with creating the mil-sf genre. Smith, Chandler, Laumer, Heinlein, and Haldeman were there much earlier.

 

[BAYLOR]

I‘ve read a couple of the Hammer’s Slammers novels and they were fine, but Drake is in no way credited with creating the mil-sf genre. Smith, Chandler, Laumer, Heinlein, and Haldeman were there much earlier.

Also Gordon R Dickson's Dorsal series .

 

[Vince W]

Also Gordon R Dickson's Dorsal series .

I don’t recall many porpoises but there were certainly sharks.

 

[BAYLOR]

I don’t recall many porpoises but there were certainly sharks.

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