David Drake

Lists of Dave’s Books and Short Fiction:

*Chronological list of first editions of novels
*Alphabetical list of first editions of novels
*Books for which Dave wrote the outlines
*Books/Anthologies edited by David Drake
*Dave’s short fiction: Chronological by first publication date
*Dave’s short fiction: Alphabetical by title of story
*Miscellaneous writings such as essays, comments, book introductions and odd pieces that don’t fit elsewhere.

PDF of Dave’s Complete Bibliography, a draft in progress, May 2010.

Some links to places you can find Dave’s books.

Dave’s novels and anthologies in chronological order by first publication date:

HAMMER’S SLAMMERS (Hammer Series) (Ace/1979) Dave’s comments
THE DRAGON LORD (Putnams/1979) Dave’s comments
TIME SAFARI (Tor/1982) Dave’s comments
FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS (Tor/1983) Dave’s comments
SKYRIPPER (Tor/1983) Dave’s comments
CROSS THE STARS (Connected to Hammer Series) (Tor/1984) Dave’s Afterword
BIRDS OF PREY (Baen/1984) Dave’s comments  continue reading…

Dave’s novels and anthologies (first editions)  in alphabetical order:

ACTIVE MEASURES (with Janet Morris) (Baen/1985)
ALL THE WAY TO THE GALLOWS (Baen/1996) Dave’s Comments
ARC RIDERS (with Janet Morris) (Warner/1995)
AT ANY PRICE (Hammer Series) (Baen/1985) Contents
BALEFIRES (Night Shade/2007) Contents
BIRDS OF PREY (Baen/1984) Dave’s comments
BRIDGEHEAD (Tor/1986) Dave’s comments continue reading…

Updated June 2011

Dave wrote detailed plot outlines (5,000-15,000 words) plots for other writers to develop into novels. As Dave says, “They did the real work of developing the outline into a novel. I don’t consider my involvement to be that of a real co-author, but my name goes on the cover, so we’ll list them here.” These include:

The Crisis of Empire Series:

An Honorable Defense. With Thomas T. Thomas, 1988,  Baen.
Cluster Command. With W. C. Dietz. 1989, Baen.
The War Machine. With Roger MacBride Allen. 1989, Baen.
Crown of Empire. With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. 1994, Baen.

The Belisarius Series:

An Oblique Approach. With Eric Flint. 1998,  Baen.
In the Heart of Darkness. With Eric Flint. 1998, Baen.
Destiny’s Shield. With Eric Flint. 1999, Baen.
Fortune’s Stroke. With Eric Flint. 2000, Baen.
The Tide of Victory. With Eric Flint. 2001, Baen.
The Dance of Time. With Eric Flint. 2006, Baen.

Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn. With Eric Flint. 2008,  Baen.  Contains An Oblique Approach and In the Heart of Darkness.
Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide. With Eric Flint. 2009, Baen.  Contains Destiny’s Shield and Fortune’s Stroke.
Belisarius III: The Flames of Sunset. With Eric Flint. 2009, Baen.  Contains The Tide of Victory and The Dance of Time.

Terra Nova Series:

Enemy of My Enemy. With Ben Ohlander. 1995,  Baen.

The Citizen Series:

Into the Hinterlands. With John Lambshead. 2011, Baen.

Armageddon. D. Drake, B. S. Mosiman and M. H. Greenberg, eds. 1998,  Baen.

Battlestation Book One. D. Drake and B. Fawcett, eds. Battlestation Series. 1992, Ace.
——— reprinted in Battlestations. D. Drake and B. Fawcett, eds. 2011, Prime Books.

Battlestation: Vanguard. D. Drake and B. Fawcett, eds. Ace ed. Battlestation Series. 1993, Ace Books.
——— reprinted in Battlestations. D. Drake and B. Fawcett, eds. 2011, Prime Books.

Beyond the Borders, by R. E. Howard. D. Drake, ed. 1996, Baen.

Bluebloods. D. Drake, ed. Starhunters Series. 1990, Baen.

Bran Mak Morn, by R. E. Howard. D. Drake, ed. 1995, Baen. continue reading…

Denkirch, Travellers by Night (anth), 1967
Lord of the Depths, Dark Things (anth), 1971
Arclight, F&SF, April, 1973
The Song of the Bone, Whispers (mag), December, 1973
The Shortest Way, Whispers (mag), March, 1974
Killer (with Karl Edward Wagner), Midnight Sun, #1, 1974
Contact!, Analog, October, 1974
Under the Hammer, Galaxy, October, 1974
The Butcher’s Bill, Galaxy, November, 1974
Something Had to be Done, F&SF, February, 1975
The Master of Demons, Dark Horizons, #11 Winter/Spring, 1975
Ranks of Bronze, Galaxy, August, 1975
Dragons’ Teeth, Midnight Sun, #2 Summer/Fall, 1975 continue reading…

Update in progress – February 2012

“Airborne All the Way!” Tapestries: An Anthology, K. Ice, ed. 1995, New York, NY: HarperPrism.
————– All the Way to the Gallows. 1996, Riverdale, NY: Baen.
————– This Is My Funniest 2: Leading Science Fiction Writers Present Their Funniest Stories Ever, M. Resnick, ed. 2007, Dallas, TX: Benbella Books.

“Arclight” F&SF, April 1973.
————– The Military Dimension. 1991, Riverdale, NY: Baen.
————– The Military Dimension: Mark II. 1995, Riverdale, NY: Baen.
————– Balefires, 2007, San Francisco: Night Shade Books.
————– Balefires, 2009, San Francisco: Night Shade Books (pb).
continue reading…

Update-in-progress February 2012

Essays, Comments, Book Introductions, etc.

“Accidentally and By the Back Door” The New York Review of Science Fiction, 2004. 17:3(195): p. 17-18.
————– The Complete Hammer’s Slammers v.1. 2006, San Francisco CA: Night Shade Books.
————– The Complete Hammer’s Slammers v.1. 2009, Riverdale, NY: Baen.

“Afterword” The Cold Equations & Other Stories, by T. Godwin. E. Flint, ed. 2003, Riverdale, NY: Baen.

“Alien Landscape with Figures” The New York Review of Science Fiction, 2005. 17:11(203): p. 6.
————– Warriors of the Steppes, by H. Lamb. H. A. Jones, ed. 2006, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. continue reading…

Cover art: Bob Eggleton

Out from Baen Books September 2011

Into the Hinterlands–the first book in The Citizen Series– is a space opera built around cultural situations very similar to those obtaining during the youth of George Washington. John Lambshead developed the plot from my outline with a great deal of interchange between us.

The odd thing about Hinterlands is that while it’s a space opera with a plot as intricate as that of, say, Northworld, it’s also hard SF. I hadn’t expected, let alone intended, that to be the case, but John is a world-class molecular biologist. That became implicit in the work.  continue reading…

“Two incandescent novels of journey and battle across the stars set in David Drake’s best-selling Hammer’s Slammers universe together for the first time in one mega-volume.”  –Amazon Book Description.

Baen’s combined volume due out January 3 2012 reprints Cross the Stars and The Voyage with the following new introduction.

STARTING A LONG WAY FROM HERE

This volume collects Cross the Stars and The Voyage, two cases where I recast an Ancient Greek epic as an SF adventure novel (a space opera). My undergraduate (double) majors were History and Latin, so that may seem an obvious thing for me to try; in fact it wasn’t. (I’ve missed seeing a lot of things that seem obvious after the fact.) continue reading…