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David Drake
Born (1945-09-24) September 24, 1945 (age 66)
Occupation Author
Language English
Nationality United States
Alma mater University of Iowa, Duke University School of Law
Genres Science fiction, fantasy
Notable work(s) Hammer's Slammers, RCN Series
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David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.

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Biography [link]

Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. With Karl Edward Wagner and Jim Groce, he was one of the founders of Carcosa, a small press. He now lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Works [link]

His best-known non-collaborative work is the Hammer's Slammers series of military science fiction. His newer Republic of Cinnabar Navy (RCN) series are space operas inspired by the Aubrey–Maturin novels. In 1997, Drake began his largest fantasy series, Lord of the Isles, using elements of Sumerian religion and medieval technology. In 2007, Drake finished the series with its ninth volume.

In addition to his own works, he often provides both plotting and a military perspective to many collaborative writing projects, such as his contributions to the Heroes in Hell series. Earlier in his career, Drake worked in collaboration with some other authors by providing detailed plot outlines (5,000 to 15,000 words), after which they did "the real work of development in the outline into a novel." He doesn't "consider [his] involvement to be that of a real co-author."[2] His co-authors include Karl Edward Wagner, S.M. Stirling, and Eric Flint.

Drake's plots often draw heavily on his extensive knowledge of history, literature, and mythology. Starting with Northworld in 1990,[1] he has generally explained the background to each book in an afterword or preface. Additionally, Drake's plots frequently center around a clash of political systems.

As John Clute concluded in the entry on Drake in the 1993 edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Today there seems very little to stop [Drake] from writing exactly what he wishes to write."

Some of Drake's works are available for free download in the Baen Free Library.

Bibliography [link]

 This article or section contains a list of works that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, though not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order) and may need cleanup.

A complete bibliography, with Drake's comments, is available at https://david-drake.com/bibliography.html.

Anthologies edited [link]

  • Armageddon (1986)—with Billie Sue Mosiman
  • A Century of Horror 1970–1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)—with Martin H. Greenberg
  • Space Gladiators (1989)
  • A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989)—with Sandra Miesel
  • Heads to the Storm (1989)—with Sandra Miesel
  • Space Infantry (1989)—with Martin H. Greenberg
  • The Eternal City (1989)
  • Space Dreadnoughts (1990)—with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
  • Dogs of War (2001)
  • Foreign Legions (2001)—with Eric Flint and David Weber (read online),
  • The World Turned Upside Down (2005)—with Jim Baen and Eric Flint

Fleet/Battlestation [link]

With Bill Fawcett

Fleet [link]

With Bill Fawcett

  • The Fleet (1988)
  • Counterattack (1988)
  • Breakthrough (1989)
  • Sworn Allies (1990)
  • Total War (1990)
  • Crisis (1991)
Battlestation [link]

With Bill Fawcett

  • Battlestation (1992)
  • The Vanguard (1993)
  • Battlestations (2011)—omnibus compendium of Battlestation and The Vanguard

War and Honor [link]

With Gordon R. Dickson, Christopher Stasheff and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Blood and War (1993)

ARC Riders [link]

With Janet Morris

Belisarius series [link]

Main article: Belisarius series

Written by Eric Flint. David contributed to the outlines only, but is listed as a co-author from the publisher.

The Books of the Elements [link]

  1. The Legions of Fire (2010)[3]
  2. Out of the Waters (2011)[4]

Car Warriors [link]

  • The Square Deal (1992), nominally set in Steve Jackson Games's Car Wars universe.

Collections [link]

  • Time Safari (1982)
  • From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • Lacey and His Friends (1986)
  • Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • Old Nathan (1991) (read online),
  • The Military Dimension (1991)
  • The Military Dimension Mark II (1995)
  • All the Way to the Gallows (1996)
  • The Warmasters (2002)—with Eric Flint and David Weber
  • Grimmer Than Hell (2003) (read online)
  • Mountain Magic (2004)—with Eric Flint, Henry Kuttner and Ryk E. Spoor
  • Other Times Than Peace (2006) (read online)

Crisis of Empire [link]

The General series [link]

Main article: The General series

Written by S. M. Stirling. David contributed to the outlines only, but is listed as a co-author from the publisher.

World of Bellevue:

  • The Forge (1991)
  • The Hammer (1992)
  • The Anvil (1993)
  • The Steel (1993)
  • The Sword (1995)

World of Visager:

World of Hafardine:

Hammer's Slammers [link]

Main article: Hammerverse
  • Hammer's Slammers (1979)
  • Cross the Stars (1984) (read online)
  • The Forlorn Hope (1984)—takes place in the Hammerverse, but does not concern the Slammers
  • At Any Price (1985)
  • Counting the Cost (1987)
  • Rolling Hot (1989)
  • The Warrior (1991)
  • The Sharp End (1993)
  • The Voyage (1993)
  • Paying the Piper (2002) (read online),
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (2005)—Omnibus edition; includes all the short stories.
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2 (2006)—Omnibus edition; includes At Any Price, Counting the Cost, Rolling Hot, The Warrior
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 (2007)—Omnibus edition; includes The Sharp End, Paying the Piper, The Darkness
  • The Tank Lords—Includes Under the Hammer, Rolling Hot, Night March, Code-Name Feirefitz & The Tank Lords. (read online)

Heroes in Hell [link]

Honorverse [link]

Main article: Honorverse

Lord of the Isles [link]

Main article: Lord of the Isles (David Drake)
  1. Lord of the Isles (1997) (read online)
  2. Queen of Demons (1998)
  3. Servant of the Dragon (1999)
  4. Mistress of the Catacombs (2001)
  5. Goddess of the Ice Realm (2003)
  6. Master of the Cauldron (2004)
  7. The Fortress of Glass (2006)
  8. The Mirror of Worlds (2007)
  9. The Gods Return (2008)

Non-series novels [link]

Northworld [link]

  • Northworld (1990)
  • Vengeance (1991)
  • Justice (1992)
    • Northworld Trilogy (1999)—Omnibus edition (read online)

RCN Series [link]

Main article: RCN Series

The first three books in this series are available as ebooks via the Baen Free Library.

1 With the Lightnings 1998 ISBN 0-671-57886-3 Baen Free Library (Author's note)
2 Lt. Leary, Commanding 2000 ISBN 0-671-57875-8 Baen Free Library
3 The Far Side of the Stars   2003   ISBN 0-7434-7158-X Baen Free Library
4 The Way to Glory 2005 ISBN 0-7434-9882-8 read online
5 Some Golden Harbor 2006 ISBN 978-1-4165-2080-1 read online
6 When the Tide Rises 2008 ISBN 978-1-4165-5527-8 read online
7 In the Stormy Red Sky 2009 ISBN 978-1-4165-9159-7
8 What Distant Deeps 2010 ISBN 978-1-4391-3366-8
9 The Road of Danger 2012 ISBN 978-1-4516-3815-8

Reaches [link]

  1. Igniting the Reaches (1994)
  2. Through the Breach (1995)
  3. Fireships (1996)
    • The Reaches (2004)—Omnibus edition

Starhunters [link]

  • Men Hunting Things (1988)
  • Things Hunting Men (1988)
  • Bluebloods (1990)

Thieves' World [link]

  • Dagger (1988)

The Tom Kelly Novels [link]

  1. Skyripper (1983)
  2. Fortress (1987)
    • Loose Cannon (2011)—Omnibus edition

Venus series [link]

  • Surface Action (1990)
  • The Jungle (1991)

World of Crystal Walls [link]

  • The Sea Hag (1988)

Short stories [link]

  • "Denkirch" in Travellers by Night (1967), Balefires (2007)
  • "Lord of the Depths" in Dark Things (1971)
  • "Arclight" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1973)
  • "Contact!" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (October 1974), Body Armor: 2000 (1986)
  • "Under the Hammer" in Galaxy Science Fiction (October 1974), Hammer's Slammers (1979)
  • "The Butcher's Bill" in Galaxy Science Fiction (November 1974), Combat SF (1975), Hammer's Slammers (1979), Combat SF (1981), Hammer's Slammers (1987)
  • "Something Had to Be Done" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 1975), The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV (1976), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
  • "Ranks of Bronze" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1975), There Will Be War (1983), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "But Loyal to His Own" in Galaxy Science Fiction (October 1975), Hammer's Slammers (1979)
  • "Awakening" in Nameless Places (1975)
  • "Black Iron" in Nameless Places (1975), Vettius and His Friends (1989), Balefires (2007)
  • "Children of the Forest" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (November 1976), The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Balefires (2007)
  • "Blood Debt" in The 4th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1976), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "Firefight" in Frights (1976), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "The Hunting Ground" in Superhorror (1976), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "Nation Without Walls" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (July 1977)
  • "The Last Battalion" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (September 1977)
  • "The Barrow Troll" in Savage Heroes (1977), Whispers (1977), The World Fantasy Awards Volume Two (1980), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Vettius and His Friends (1989), Balefires (2007)
  • "Dragons' Teeth" in Swords Against Darkness (1977), Dragon Tales (1982), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "The Shortest Way" in First World Fantasy Awards (1977), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Vettius and His Friends (1989), Balefires (2007)
  • "Smokie Joe" in More Devil's Kisses (1977), Terrors (1982), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Balefires (2007)
  • "Nemesis Place" in Fantastic (April 1978), The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII (1979), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "Best of Luck" in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI (1978), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "Caught in the Crossfire" in Chrysalis 2 (1978), Hammer's Slammers (1979), Caught in the Crossfire (1998)
  • "The Mantichore", Swords Against Darkness III (1978), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "Cultural Conflict" in Destinies (January/February 1979), Hammer's Slammers (1979)
  • "The Predators" in Destinies (October/December 1979)
  • "Hangman" in Hammer's Slammers (1979), Supertanks (1987)
  • "The Red Leer" in Whispers II (1979), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Balefires (2007)
  • "Standing Down" in Hammer's Slammers (1979)
  • "Underground" in Destinies (February/March 1980)
  • "Men Like Us" in Omni (May 1980), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "The Automatic Rifleman" in Destinies (Fall 1980), From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
  • "Goddess" in Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (1980), Sanctuary (1982)
  • "Than Curse the Darkness" in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980), From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Balefires (2007)
  • "Time Safari" in Destinies (Spring 1981), Tyrannosaur (1993)
  • "Travellers" in Destinies (Winter 1981)
  • "King Crocodile" in Whispers III (1981), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "The Dancer in the Flames" in From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Whispers IV (1983)
  • "Votary" in The Face of Chaos (1983)
  • "Out of Africa" in From the Heart of Darkness (1983), Horrorstory: Volume 4 (1990)
  • "Code-name Feirefitz" in Men of War (1984)
  • "From the Dark Waters" in Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 5: Giants (1985), Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • The Guardroom in Afterwar (1985)
  • The Great Beer Shortage with Janet Morris in Far Frontiers Vol. VI (Fall 1986)
  • "The Tank Lords" in Far Frontiers Vol. VI (Fall 1986), Hammer's Slammers (1987), Call to Battle (1988)
  • "The Hand of Providence" in Heroes in Hell (1986)
  • "'Cause I Served My Time in Hell" in Rebels in Hell (1986)
  • "The Interrogation Team" in Warrior (1986), Caught in the Crossfire (1998)
  • "The Fool" in Whispers VI (July 1987)
  • "Bargain" in Masters in Hell (1987)
  • "Learning Curve" in Angels in Hell (1987)
  • "Liberty Port" in Alien Stars IV: Freelancers (1987)
  • "Springs Eternal" in Crusaders in Hell (1987)
  • "Wisdom" in Crusaders in Hell (1987)
  • "Rescue Mission" in The Fleet (1988)
  • "Safe to Sea" in Spacefighters (1988)
  • "When the Devil Drives" in The Fleet: Counterattack (1988)
  • "Dreams in Amber" in Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "The False Prophet" in Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "Killer" with Karl Edward Wagner in Vettius and His Friends (1989)
  • "Exile" in Prophets in Hell (1989)
  • "Elfin Pipes of Northworld" in The New York Review of Science Fiction (December 1990)
  • "Looking Forward: Excerpt from Northworld: Justice" in Amazing Stories (March 1992)
  • "Looking Forward: Excerpt from The Sharp End" in Amazing Stories (October 1993)
  • "Boundary Layer" in Tyrannosaur (1993)
  • "King Tyrant Lizard" in Tyrannosaur (1993)
  • "Cannibal Plants From Heck" in Alien Pregnant By Elvis (1994)
  • "Airborne All the Way!" in Magic, the Gathering: Tapestries (1995)
  • "To Bring the Light" in Locus (August 1996)
  • "The Waiting Bullet" in Locus (August 1996)
  • "A Grand Tour" in More than Honor (1998)
  • "The Immovable Object" in Caught in the Crossfire (1998)
  • "With the Sword He Must Be Slain" in Armageddon (1998)
  • "A Very Offensive Weapon" in All the Way to the Gallows (1995)
  • "The Tradesmen" in Grimmer Than Hell (2000)
  • "A Death in Peacetime" in The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (2005)
  • "Dragon, the Book"

References [link]

  1. ^ Dedication in Rosenberg's "The Road Home"
  2. ^ Novel Plot Outlines, May 26, 2010
  3. ^ "The Books of the Elements". david-drake.com. 1 May 2010. https://david-drake.com/2010/the-books-of-the-elements/. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 
  4. ^ "Out of the Waters (The Books of the Elements, Vol. 2)". Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765320797/. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 

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David Drake (potter)

David Drake (also "Dave the Potter" and "Dave the Slave") (c. 1801-c. 1870s) was an influential American potter who lived in Edgefield, South Carolina and produced over 100 alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs from the 1820s to the 1860s. An enslaved African American, he often signed his works "Dave."

Dave was born around 1801 on a plantation in South Carolina, and continued to work there until the emancipation. Afterward, he adopted the surname "Drake." Historians believe this is after Harry Drake, his master until 1832, who is presumed to have taught him to be a potter.

Pottery

  • Dave commonly used 25- to 40 gallon jugs, which he frequently adorned with short poems and couplets. Some of these were explanatory "Put every bit all between / surely this jar will hold 14;" and some were commentaries on the selling of slaves "I wonder where is all my relations / Friendship to all—and every nation." This unusual feature of his work is one of his most famous trademarks. Some collectors and scholars have suggested that Dave's poetry should be characterized as an early act of sedition in the cause of civil rights, because at the time it was generally forbidden for African-Americans to read and write.
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    David Drake (actor)

    David Drake (born June 27, 1963) is an American playwright, stage director, actor and author. He is best known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, for which he received a Village Voice Obie Award, a 1994 Drama-Logue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance," and a Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for the same. Nominations include a 1994 LA Weekly Theater Award and a Lambda Literary Award nomination for "Best New Play of 1994" (published by Anchor Books).

    Biography

    Born as David Drakula in Edgewood, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, he later began going by the name David Drake. He has contributed articles to the Advocate, TheaterWeek, and Details. One of the longest one-actor plays in Off Broadway history, Larry Kramer has received over thirty productions in nearly a dozen countries, and the published version was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

    In 2000 Drake starred in a movie version of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. The movie was directed by Tim Kirkman and was filmed at Baltimore Theatre Project.

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    Dave Drake

    David "Dave" Drake (July 9, 1918 – August 9, 1995) was an American football coach in the United States.

    Coaching career

    Drake was the second head football coach for the Azusa Pacific Cougars located in Azusa, California and he held that position for one season, in 1966. His coaching record at Azusa Pacific was 5 wins, 4 losses, and 0 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, this ranks him #8 at Azusa Pacific in total wins and #3 at the school in winning percentage (.556).

    References

    External links

  • Dave Drake, 47, of 5221 N. El Monte Ave., Temple City, has been named head football coach for Azusa Pacific College


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    David Drake (disambiguation)

    David Drake may refer to:

  • David Drake (born 1945), author of science fiction and fantasy literature
  • Dave Drake (1918–1995), American football coach in the United States
  • David Drake (actor) (born 1963), author and performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
  • David Drake (chef), chef and restaurateur in New Jersey
  • David Drake (potter) (c.1801–c.1870s), nineteenth-century African-American potter
  • David Drake Limited, shipbuilding company
  • David Drake (venture capitalist) (born 1970)
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    David Drake (chef)

    David Drake is a prominent chef in New Jersey. He has worked at the Stage House Inn in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, established the restaurant David Drake with a business partner in Rahway, New Jersey, and was executive chef at the Daryl Wine Bar in New Brunswick, New Jersey until 2009.

    Early life

    Drake was born in Summit, New Jersey. He started out at 17 as a dishwasher at Chez Odette in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

    Career

    Drake became executive chef at the Frog and the Peach in New Brunswick. He also worked with chef Jean Francois Taquet, at the River Café with chef David Burke in Brooklyn, and at the Ryland Inn with chef Craig Shelton in Whitehouse.

    Credited as a "New Jersey pioneer of modern American cuisine with classic French roots," Drake had growing success until the rough patch in the economy took a toll on business starting in 2007. In 2010 he helped revamp Alice's Restaurant on Lake Hopatcong.

    References

    External links

    Official homepage


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    David of Bulgaria

    David (Bulgarian: Давид) (died 976) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel and eldest son of komes Nicholas. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southern-most parts of the realm from Prespa and Kastoria and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with Thessalonica and Thessaly. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the Byzantine Empire but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.

    Family tree

    Another theory

    However, there's also another version about David’s origin. David gains the title "comes" during his service in the Byzantine army which recruited many Armenians from the Eastern region of the empire. The 11th-century historian Stepanos Asoghik wrote that Samuel had one brother, and they were Armenians from the district Derjan. This version is supported by the historians Nicholas Adontz, Jordan Ivanov, and Samuil's Inscription where it’s said that Samuel’s brother is David. Also, the historians Yahya and Al Makin clearly distinguish the race of Samuel and David (the Comitopouli) from the one of Moses and Aaron (the royal race):

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