David Drake Books In Order
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Hammer's Slammers | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At Any Price | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Counting the Cost | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rolling Hot | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Warrior | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sharp End | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tank Lords | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Paying the Piper | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Hammerverse Books
The Forlorn Hope | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cross The Stars | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Voyage | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of ARC Riders Books
ARC Riders | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fourth Rome | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Belisarius Books
An Oblique Approach | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Heart of Darkness | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Destiny's Shield | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fortune's Stroke | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tide of Victory | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dance of Time | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Books of the Elements Books
The Legions of Fire | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Out of the Waters | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Monsters of the Earth | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Air and Darkness | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Citizen Books
Into the Hinterlands | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Into the Maelstrom | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Crisis of Empire Books
An Honorable Defense | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cluster Command | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The War Machine | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crown of Empire | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Crown Of The Isles Books
The Fortress of Glass | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mirror of Worlds | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gods Return | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Fleet Books
Counter Attack | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Breakthrough | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sworn Allies | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Total War | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crisis | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Heroes In Hell Books
Heroes in Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gates of Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kings in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Explorers in Hell | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Lt. Leary / RCN Books
With the Lightnings | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lt. Leary, Commanding | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Far Side of the Stars | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Way to Glory | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Some Golden Harbor | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When the Tide Rises | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Stormy Red Sky | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What Distant Deeps | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Road of Danger | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sea Without a Shore | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death's Bright Day | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Though Hell Should Bar the Way | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
To Clear Away the Shadows | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Lord of the Isles Books
Lord of the Isles | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Queen of Demons | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Servant of the Dragon | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mistress of the Catacombs | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Goddess of the Ice Realm | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Master of the Cauldron | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Northworld Books
Northworld | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Vengeance | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Justice | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Raj Whitehall/The General Books
The Forge | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Hammer | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Anvil | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Steel | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sword | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Chosen | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Reformer | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tyrant | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Heretic | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Savior | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Reaches Books
Igniting the Reaches | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Through the Breach | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fireships | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Seas of Venus Books
Surface Action | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Jungle | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Starhunters Books
Men Hunting Things | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Things Hunting Men | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bluebloods | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Time of Heroes Books
The Spark | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Storm | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Serpent | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Tom Kelly Books
Skyripper | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fortress | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of War and Honor Books
Blood and War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of World Of Crystal Walls Books
The Sea Hag | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Time Safari | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
From the Heart of Darkness | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Military Dimension | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Military Dimension Mark II | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
All the Way to the Gallows | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Grimmer Than Hell | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Balefires | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
NightDemons | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Window of Opportunity | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Heroes in Hell Books
Heroes in Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gates of Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kings in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crusaders in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Angels in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Little Helliad | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
War in Hell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Prophets in Hell | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lawyers in Hell | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Poets in Hell | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Honorverse Books
Chronological Order of Honorverse Books
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Barrow Troll | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Car Warriors Books
GURPS Autoduel: Roleplaying in the world of Car Wars | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Square Deal | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Double Jeopardy | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Back from Hell | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Heroes In Hell Books
Rebels In Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gates of Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Masters in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kings in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Legions of Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Books
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Worlds of Honor Books
More Than Honor | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Worlds of Honor | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Changer of Worlds | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Service of the Sword | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Fire Forged | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beginnings | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What Price Victory? | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Ranks of Bronze Books
Ranks of Bronze | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Foreign Legions | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Excalibur Alternative | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Foreign Legions is a novella collection. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Nameless Places | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Whispers | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rivals Of Dracula | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chrysalis Volume 2 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Free Lancers | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Far Stars War | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Power | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cats in Space... and Other Places | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Battlestations | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Honor of the Regiment | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Vanguard | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tapestries | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Warmasters | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mountain Magic | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
This Is My Funniest 2 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fleet | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadows of the New Sun | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Worst Contact | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Infinite Stars | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Space Pioneers | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Give Me LibertyCon | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Weird World War III | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bullet Points 2 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: Tales of Future Combat and Mechanized Warfare | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
David Drake is one of the major bestseller authors in the American Military Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Since 1979, he authored and co-authored more than a hundred books, and published many more anthologies and short stories. He worked in collaboration with many writers such as Eric Flint, Karl Edward Wagner and S.M. Stirling.
A Short Bio
David Drake was born on September 24, 1945, to a middle class family in Iowa. David was an avid lover of the written word from a very young age. When he was only two years old, way before he learned to read, he fell in love with a poem from The Big Golden Book of Poetry, “The Chickens”. He liked it so much, that he insisted that his parents read it to him every night even though he knew it perfectly by heart. When David was ten years old, he read his first science fiction novel – The Angry Planet by John Keir Cross – which astounded him both in its ingenuity and its seriousness. Even though it was intended for children, the book dealt with sensitive subjects like war and death.In 1967, David graduated the University of Iowa, majoring in History and Latin, and moved to North Carolina to enter Duke University Law School. However, David’s studies were interrupted in 1969, his second year, when he was drafted to the US military and sent to fight in the Vietnam War.Drake cites his service in the Vietnam War as “The greatest single influence on my life”, and then goes on to add “I wish that weren’t true, but it is.” He actually spent most of his time in Cambodia, as he finished his military training just in time for the invasion of Cambodia in 1970. If not for the war, David says, he wouldn’t have written so many stories about soldiers, battles and the military. As a result, his stories often hold a very cruel mirror to life, describing in great details all the atrocities done by human beings in order to win a war. During the war, he saw a lot of death and pain caused to soldiers and civilians. Some of his books deal specifically with these tender subjects.He lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, with his wife Jo, whom he met at a young age when studying at the University of Iowa. Together they have one son, Jonathan, born in 1973. David was one the initiators of a small press company called Carcosa, along with fellow writer Karl Edward Wagner.
David Drake’s Best Known Novels and Series
Redliners (1996)
David Drake’s novel Redliners tells the story of the Strike Force Company C41, with their commander Major Arthur Farrell. The company has seen a lot of war, and each of its members deals with their own painful memories. They are no longer fit for battle, but nor do they fit to lead their civilian lives again. When their last mission goes wrong, it becomes their responsibility to protect civilian lives and risk their own like they never dreamed before.David says about Redliners “…What came out in Redliners broke twenty-five years of, well, something…” Refering to his own experience of fighting against a larger than life enemy in Vietnam and Cambodia. He says many people with PSTD (Posttraumatic stress disorder, sadly common among war veterans) have read the book and said it helped them a lot to deal with the pain. Dealing with these touchy subjects is why Redliners is one of Drake’s best and most disturbing novels, some would even go as far as to considers it Drake’s masterpiece. David himself says that in Redliners he was “writing over his head” and that the process of creating the novel had helped him to deal with a lot of stress and trauma he had since the war.
Hammer’s Slammers
The “Hammer’s Slammers” series is one of David Drake’s best known works. First book of the series was published in 1979, with the same name as the entire series, and is a collection of short stories following the missions of a mercenary armored tank regiment in a fictional war in the 30th century, and their captain Colonel Alois Hammer. David says the series is very much influenced from his own experiences as an interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in the Vietnam War. The series contain purely Science Fiction themes like advanced technology and weaponry.
The series contains 10 books, the last one published in 2002, and four anthologies. It has been adapted to many board games and role playing games, and has enjoyed a very loyal fan base over the decades since its first book.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles is a series of fantasy novels David began in 1997 with the first book – Lord of the Isles. The series tell of an archipelago known in the books as The Isles, and its inhabitant, specifically four young children from a small village in one of the isles. The books deal with one of the children, Garric or-Reise, and his claim to rule the entire archipelago. In the series world you can find many fantastical elements like magic and parallel realities. The series is 9 books long, but is usually divided into two parts – The first six books are called together Lord of the Isles, and the final trilogy is called Crown of the Isles.Garric or-Reise is just a young boy from a tiny town by the seaport. His destiny is changed forever once he saves the life of a mystical sorceress from the ancient past called Tenoctris. Through the first book, he finds out he is the heir to the last great king who ruled over the entire archipelago a thousand years ago, and sets forth on a journey to discover who he really is and reclaim his throne.Sharina is Garric’s sister. She too, on the first book of the series, finds out that she is not just a simple town girl, when a galley lands on the shores of the town with an envoy seeking for the lost heiress for an ancient dukedom, and finding Sharina to be that heiress. Like her brother Garric, she also embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Availability
You can get David Drake’s books in many retailers, like Amazon, in either Hardcover, Paperback or Kindle versions.
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I found this fascinating in its scope. I can’t wait to read (or re-read) books in their order of appearance. I have the three collections of Hammer’s Slammers, and I love the series of books about a more-lucky-than-good starship captain and his odd sidekick, a withdrawn librarian who can make computers dance the samba while fighting off a hoard of enemies. And the crew of the good ship Cecille – the “sissies” are wonderful characters in themselves. I really love those, and was excited to see that the series has grown dramatically since I last read one – can’t wait to read them all. Plus, I want to read all the other David Drake books. Thanks for this list.