Not an Amazon special, this time: Baen Books has made David Drake’s Redliners a free e-library book. So if you’ve never read it (I haven’t, either), check it out. And pour one out for David Drake, while you’re at it. What he didn’t know about writing military science fiction probably didn’t matter much, anyway.
Moe Lane
PS: Personally, I was a big fan of his collaborations with Eric Flint and S.M. Stirling. As for his own work: the RCN series is what I bought, as soon as new ones came out. I am an absolute sucker for Napoleonic War-era naval fiction… In Space! Balefires is likewise a favorite; the man had a dab hand at horror.
#commissionearned
“Redliners” was the book that explained my wife’s uncle. A good man who had been through some dark sh*t in war, and wasn’t having a smooth transition back.
I am in Drake’s debt for wrestling his demons publicly, providing a framework for understanding one of the best examples of a man I have known.
Both David and Bill left within the last year or so, both will be missed.
Mew
I’ve got it on my to-read list.