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Voyage Across the Stars
“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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Argonautica, Cross the Stars, Influences, The Odyssey, The Voyage
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Cross the Stars
AFTERWORD: WHERE I GET MY IDEAS If you decide to write about far-famed Achilles, make him active, hot-tempered, inexorable, and fierce; let him deny that laws were made for him, let him think his sword rules all. –Horace, The Art … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics, Cross the Stars, Homer, Horace, Influences, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Warrior, Writing
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