The Complete Hammer's Slammers Vol 1 Author:David Drake With a veteran's eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of tank combat in his Hammer's Slammers fiction. The Slammers are neither cartoon heroes nor propaganda villains; rather they are competent professionals engaged in a deadly business. The inevitable conflicts between policy, necessity, a... more »nd human nature make Drake's Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling. This is the first of a three volume set presenting the entire genre-defining Slammers series in a uniform trade paperback set, with new introductions by major SF figures and new afterwords by David Drake. Each volume also includes a Slammers story not collected in previous Slammer's books.
This volume features all of the Hammer's Slammer short fiction, as well as all of the interstitial material from the original Slammers collection, as well as new artwork, and an original Slammers story, "A Death in Peacetime." The first volume features an introduction by Gene Wolfe
Fans of Drake's edgy stories of a mercenary tank regiment in a future not all that different from our present will rejoice at the publication of] the entire series in three volumes. Drake, a Vietnam vet who served in the Blackhorse Regiment, uses prose as cold and hard as the metal alloy of a tank to portray the men and women of Hammer's Regiment. . . . In his depiction of combat, Drake rivals Crane and Remarque.
Contents:
Under the hammer
Supertanks
Butcher's bill
Church of the Lord's universe
But loyal to his own
Powerguns
Caught in the crossfire
Backdrop to chaos
Cultural conflict
Bonding authority
Hangman
Table of organization and equipment, Hammer's Regiment