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Mistress of the Catacombs (2002)

Like the previous books in the series, the story begins with Garric, Liane, Sharina, Cashel, Ilna and Tenoctris all together, comtemplating their next moves to unite the Isles. But they are soon whirled apart. Garric is tricked by a wizard and wakes up in the body of a young idiot man, many years...

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From the Heart of Darkness (1983)

FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS come no gentle wraiths, no pastel fantasies of bittersweet, seductive evil. This horror slams like a muzzle blast into its victim's awareness, carves its image with razor claws of violence as vivid as graphic as uncensored imagination. This horror comes from the center ...

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The Tide of Victory (2002)

Armed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his own ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifying and evil entity from the future.

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Master of the Cauldron (2006)

Garric or-Reise was born the son of an innkeeper in Barca's Hamlet on the Isle of Haft, but through valor and determination became first a prince and then the Regent and successor to the feeble Valence III, King of the Isles. But the Kingdom is weak, its rule barely extending past the island of O...

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Goddess of the Ice Realm (2004)

In the 5th novel of the series, Garric and his friends reach the city of Carcosa, where there is tension between the three priesthoods. When Tenoctris, accompanied by Cashel, tries to find out whether one temple is a trap, evil magic is set upon them, leaving Cashel with a choice - die in its gra...

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Servant of the Dragon (2000)

Servant of the Dragon is the third book in the Lord of the Isles series by David Drake and I am currently reading it. So far it is pretty good - with the same kind of elements found in the prior books. Huge problems are discovered and then solved with suprising ease. However, both Sharina and Cas...

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Aftermath (1987)

Welcome to Sanctuary, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: Lynn Abbey Robert Lynn Asprin John Brunner David Drake Janet Morris Andrew Offutt Mark C. PerryIn this explosive te...

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Lt. Leary, Commanding (2001)

From Publishers Weekly No one who read Drake's first account of Lt. Daniel Leary's adventures in With the Lightnings will be surprised at the appearance of this sequel; that novel clearly launched a series. What is surprising, however, is the wonderfully strong quality of the follow-up. Althoug...

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Retief! (2002)

Publisher's Note: The stories and novel herein have previously appeared in parts in Envoy To New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, and Retief's War. This is the first unitary edition.Contents:p. 1 • Extraordinary Diplomats (Retief!) • (2002) • essay by David Drakep. 5 • Diplomat-at-Arms • (1960) • novel...

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The Face of Chaos (1984)

Book 5 of the twelve orignal TW anthology novels starts a plot arc with "mysterious invaders" that show up, look like fish, and don't do much else. TW isn't a series with a big-picture focus, though, so the presence of these invaders is more or less artfully *shown* through the new gritty experie...

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The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (2005)

This volume features all of the Hammer’s Slammer short fiction, as well as all of the interstitial material from the original Slammers collection, new artwork and new interstitial material. Volume 1 also features an introduction by Gene Wolfe and an original Slammers story, “A Death in Peacetime....

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With the Lightnings (2000)

En ciencia ficción el pastiche de la novela náutica napoleónica es equivalente al pastiche tolkieniano en fantasía. La gran diferencia, empero, es que el segundo llegó a niveles extraordinariamente trillados y el primero desde sus inicios sonó muy forzado, búsquese donde se busque. De cualquier m...

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Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn (1986)

Странна, противоречива, на моменти много интересна, на други – скучновата. С една дума – наистина нееднозначна книга, това е „Разкази от Кръчмата При Еднорога”. По същината си това са седем разказа от седем автора, които се развиват в един и същ фентъзи сетинг. Може да ви прозвучи натруфено, но м...

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The War Machine (1989)

What's worse than a corrupt, decadent, autocratic, oppressive regime? Corrupt, decadent, autocratic, oppressive aliens..."For Reasons of State" they ripped his marriage apart and forced his wife into the bed of another man. Now their empire is in danger and he is the one man in place to stop the ...

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The Fourth Rome (1996)

Unchecked after the collapse of the USSR, a Soviet scientific team conducts experiments in time travel, hoping to rewrite history and thus cultivate a Russian superpower.

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The Mirror of Worlds (2007)

The Mirror of the Worlds is the second in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. The Fortress of Glass began the tale of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to a...

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The Tank Lords (1997)

The Tank Lords contains two full volume's worth of the Hammer's Slammer's saga for the first time presented in chronological story sequence as determined by the author.

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The Hunter Returns (1991)

International best-selling science fiction author, David Drake teams with Jim Kjelgaard, legendary creator of Big Red.The Return of a Masterpiece of Middle Grade Fiction!OUTCASTS IN A LAND OF MONSTERSMeet Hawk, formerly a hunter in a band of prehistoric nomads, now an outcast for breaking tribal ...

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John the Balladeer (1988)

Collection of 17 short stories (written in two chronological periods, 1951-58 and 1979-86) plus a few ultra-short vignettes written in 1962-63, presented in the order they were written, and all set in Appalachia and featuring Wellman series character Silver John. John wanders the mountains on fo...

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The Forlorn Hope (2006)

They had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mecenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their distruction. With only...

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Bridgehead (2007)

There's a secret in the basement of the engineering building. Three travelers, claiming to be from a utopia six thousand years hence, are helping Dr. Gustafson and his graduate staff invent a time transport. Their stated goal: to stop war and secure a peaceful future. Overloaded and overtaxed, ...

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Arc Riders (2009)

The elite Anti-Revision Command, the ARC Riders, attempt to foil a desperate plot to destroy the United States. Reactionary 23rd century conspirators have changed history, and the Vietnam War has spread to central China.

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Seas of Venus (2004)

After Clash by Night David Drake did do a real good job in expanding the "universe" that "Henry Kuttner" had laid out. And given Drake's penchant style with Hammer's Slammers overall I can say that this two novella book reminds me (at least The Jungle novella) of Halo: Nightfall, where there's th...

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The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny (1990)

Two masters of fantasy adventure present two reluctant heroes fighting fairy tale monsters--and finding that modern knowledge is not enough to do the job. Still, they have to try, or their friends will be horribly, realistically dead.

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Lord of the Isles (2011)

Each carried on his back a chest that Cashel had been sure was a load for two of them. The sailors didn’t look nearly as sturdy or well fed as Frasa and Jen, and even the Serian nobles were wispy-looking folk by the standards of Barca’s Hamlet. “They’re tough little buggers,” Cashel said to the s...

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The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 3

Coke, lying in a haze of almost-sleep directly above the sound, snapped awake. Moments later someone hammered on the hotel’s front door. “Quick, open up!” a man called from the street. “I have to see the Frisian major at once! The Old Man needs him!” It was three hours before dawn. Coke pulled on...

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Elements 03 - Monsters of the Earth

bellowed the leading member of their escort. The staff based in Carce would probably have announced Alphena’s name first, let alone passing her over as an adjunct to her brother. Varus winced, but Alphena didn’t react with the violence he expected. She seemed … well, in another person he would ha...

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Up From Hell

We’d held up just out of sight to primp, braid our hair, and put on a bright sash or a gold torque. Most of my troopers were common warriors, but our incidental pickings let them dress like nobles. Galo, my mother’s sister’s son, was calling the verses from the driver’s bench of the cart full of ...

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Night & Demons

When he became president of the British Fantasy Society, I joined the organization (the original anthologies in which most of my fantasy and horror appeared were all British anyway). At Ramsey’s request I then wrote “The Master of Demons” for the club’s fantasy magazine, Dark Horizons. Dark Horiz...

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Cluster Command: Crisis of Empire II

Tomorrow it would be Windsor’s, but tonight it still belonged to Governor Trent and he was throwing himself a going-away party. Bethany’s hand felt light on his arm, and in spite of the fact that she wasn’t really his, Merikur felt proud to be with her. The crowd parted to let them through as the...

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Voyage Across the Stars

noted the dispassionate mind of Elysium. “He decided for them, so that some died and some went mad without any knowledge of what they were being sent into.” “He led them,” responded the other current. “He decided for men who had chosen him to decide. When it came to a clear choice, he was willing...

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Out of the Waters

Saxa said. Even half-dazed by the dream of his conversation with the corpse, Varus felt his lips lift in a tiny smile. His father was so proud to be able to claim Priscus as a friend. A man as wealthy as Saxa could easily have scraped acquaintance with military, political, or social leaders. What...

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The World Turned Upside Down

CampbellPreface by Eric FlintThis story has been anthologized so many times, that I suppose I should explain why we decided to do it again. Well . . . that's sort of the reason, right there. It was something of a ubiquitous phenomenon, coming into science fiction in the late '50s and early '60s. ...

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Queen of Demons (2011)

The soldiers, a mixture of armed retainers provided by all five conspirators, wore tabards with the same device. “King Carus!” the crowds cheered as they saw Garric. “Long live Carus!” At the back of Garric’s mind, a normally cheerful presence glowered at the flags. Garric turned to Liane, being ...

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The Sea Without a Shore

The harbor level had dropped several feet in the recent past, and the bottom four rungs were slimy with a mixture of lubricant, algae, and the organic waste which nourished the algae.“Ah, thank you, your ladyship,” Cleveland said. He turned his head, obviously looking for a place to deposit the r...

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Air and Darkness

Phoenix, the tree nymph standing on the ground with Aura, giggled and said, “Ooh! That tickles!” The sharp orichalc blade made the job easier than it would have been with the working edge of his issue dagger. Corylus could certainly have cut through the stems with the steel, but since he had only...

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Birds of Prey

demanded the commander of the detachment at the west gate of Tarsus. “Dis-mount, dammit.” “Hey, you’re not checking them,” said Gaius. He waved toward the stream of traffic into the city. Sestius was already off his donkey. He grimaced, only partly at his stiffness from the ride. It was for Peren...

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The Legions of Fire

Pulto hadn’t complained—he’d been a soldier for twenty-five years and the batman of Corylus’s father, Publius Cispius, for the last eighteen of them. On the other hand, the young master hadn’t specified footgear. Pulto had chosen to wear hobnailed army boots with the toga. Corylus grinned as they...

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Dagger

It winked, and Samlor winked cheerfully at the amazement of the man whom he saw for the first time. Money was generally the best way to approach a stranger. "What d'ye wanna know?" said the watchman. His voice was no less suspicious than before, but now it was pitched an octave lower. The coin di...

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The Heretic

Most were on dontback. They charged into the open field, and, at shouted order, a group of perhaps fifty riders wheeled to guard their rear. I’ve never seen Blaskoye so disciplined, Abel thought. Who are those guys? The remainder made for the hill, seemingly zeroing in on the knoll as a rallying ...

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The War Machine: Crisis of Empire III

“Thirty seconds,” the Marine pilot announced, and Peever briefly considered he had just that long to get off the Fleance. But it really was too late for that. Aside from the question of courts martial and so on, there were just too many seat belts, safety catches, hatches and air locks to get thr...

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Dinosaurs & A Dirigible

A throwaway scene in the novel involves a distant world in which a family of creatures much like plant-eating dinosaurs are gamboling.In good time I got back the manuscript. With it came a long editorial letter which, among other things, directed me to remove that scene. I don’t have the letter a...

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Loose Cannon: The Tom Kelly Novels

Kelly asked. He dared not stop yet. A quick glance to the side showed him only that his two passengers were sprawled across the seat. Vlasov straightened up slowly. He had been pressing his ear against the Defense Attaché’s chest. “Yes,” he said quietly in Russian, “but your friend, I am afraid, ...

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The Road of Danger-ARC

Adding them was mostly a political decision. Woetjans wouldn’t care one way or the other: she was by no means stupid, but she regarded planning as something her betters—better born, better educated—did. Unless the plans involved clearing top-hamper after something disastrous happened to the rig, ...

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