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  • Bibliography:
    120 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Books of the Elements

1 - The Legions of Fire (May-2010)
2 - Out of the Waters (Jul-2011)
3 - Monsters of the Earth (Sep-2013)
4 - Air and Darkness (Nov-2015)

The Crown of the Isles

1 - The Fortress of Glass (Apr-2006)
2 - The Mirror of Worlds (Jul-2007)
3 - The Gods Return (Nov-2008)

The Fleet

1 - Fleet (May-1988)
2 - Counter Attack (Dec-1988)
3 - Breakthrough (Dec-1989)
4 - Sworn Allies (Mar-1990)
5 - Total War (1990)
6 - Crisis (1991)

Hammer's Slammers

1 - Hammer's Slammers (Apr-1979)
2 - At Any Price (May-1991)
3 - Counting the Cost (Nov-1989)
4 - Rolling Hot (Sep-1989)
5 - The Warrior (May-1991)
Cross the Stars (1984)
The Voyage (Jan-1994)
Caught in the Crossfire (Jul-1998)
The Butcher's Bill (Nov-1998)
Paying the Piper (Jul-2002)

Lord of the Isles

1 - Lord of the Isles (Aug-1997)
2 - Queen of Demons (Aug-1998)
3 - Servant of the Dragon (Aug-1999)
4 - Mistress of the Catacombs (Sep-2001)
Goddess of the Ice Realm (Sep-2003)
Master of the Cauldron (Nov-2004)

Northworld

2 - Vengeance (Mar-1991)
3 - Justice (Apr-1992)

Republic of Cinnabar Navy

1 - With the Lightnings (1998)
2 - Lt. Leary, Commanding (Jul-2000)
3 - The Far Side of the Stars (Oct-2003)
4 - The Way to Glory (May-2005)
5 - Some Golden Harbor (Sep-2006)
6 - When the Tide Rises (Mar-2008)
7 - In the Stormy Red Sky (May-2009)
8 - What Distant Deeps (Sep-2010)
9 - The Road of Danger (Apr-2012)
10 - The Sea Without a Shore (May-2014)
11 - Death's Bright Day (Jun-2016)
12 - Though Hell Should Bar the Way (Apr-2018)
13 - To Clear Away the Shadows (Jun-2019)

Seas of Venus

1 - Surface Action (Oct-1990)
2 - The Jungle (Sep-1991)
3 - The Real Jungle: Belize 2001 (Oct-2002)

Starhunters

1 - Men Hunting Things (Apr-1988)
2 - Things Hunting Men (Jun-1988)
3 - Bluebloods (Feb-1990)

Thieves' World

5 - Dagger (Apr-1988)

Time of Heroes

1 - The Spark (Nov-2017)
2 - The Storm (Jan-2019)
3 - The Serpent (Jul-2021)

Tom Kelly

1 - Skyripper (Jun-1992)
2 - Fortress (Apr-1999)
3 - Loose Cannon (Jul-2011)

The World of Crystal Walls

The Sea Hag (Aug-1988)

Multi-Author Series List

Car Warriors

1 - The Square Deal (Jul-1993)

Crisis of Empire

2 - Cluster Command (May-1989)

Thieves' World

Dagger (Apr-1988)

Book List in Order: 120 titles

  • The Dragon Lord

    Shrouded in mystery and glory, the heroes and heroines beckon from the mists of history -- Arthur and Guinevere, Merlin, Lancelot, Mordred. What were they really like? What lives did they really lead? Read about them all, as they might have been, in ...

  • Hammer's Slammers

    Hammer's Slammers - 1

    A FEW GOOD MEN ROB JENNE He was a good boy from a backwoods planet--until he met the recruiting officer from the Slammers. DANNY PRITCHARD A brilliant officer who had achieved command rank the hard way, through the ranks, he had one fatal f...

  • Time Safari

  • Code-Name Feirefitz

    in There Will Be War, Vol. II: Men of War
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    HIGH TECH WAR -- AND HOW TO AVOID IT The answer is simple: you would have peace? Then prepare for war. This wisdom is as old as armies. Yet after a few generations, the peace that was paid for with soldiers' blood comes to seem the normal thing, t...

  • From the Heart of Darkness

    IT WADDLES FORM A REED-CHOKED SWAMP OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS... IT SNARLS FROM THE SHOT-SPLIT DARKNESS OF VIET NAM... IT STALKS THE GLOWING SLAG IN WHICH A CIVILIZATION DIED... FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS come no gentle wraiths, no pastel fant...

  • Birds of Prey

    In A.D. 262, imperial secret agent Aulus Perennius stands alone against the imminent collapse of Rome's empire, until a visitor from the distant future engages him in a mission of utmost secrecy and significance...

  • Cross the Stars

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    Hammer's Slammers

    THE LONG WAY HOME Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler...

  • Killer

    IT WAS IN A CAGE THE FIRST TIME HE SAW IT Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers in India--lions in the hills of Macedon--elephants where the Mediterranean surges against the fo...

  • The Interrogation Team

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Warrior
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    WARRIOR! spans the length and depths of interstellar space, breaching the farthest reaches of infinity. From the deepest heart of the starkest black hole to the dazzling chaos of starry inception man endlessly replays the tireless scenarios of war. F...



  • Active Measures

    In 1999, the Soviets have made one of their own agents president of the U.S.A. and only one man and one woman can save the nation, and readers can win 10,000 dollars by providing correct answers to seven key questions...

  • Strangers and Lovers

  • Bridgehead

    THERE'S A SECRET in the basement of the engineering building. Three Travelers, claiming to be from a utopia 6000 years hence, are helping Dr. Gustafson and his graduate staff invent a time transport. Their stated goal--to stop war and save a peacefu...

  • Ranks of Bronze

    THE ALIENS WERE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD FIGHTERS, WARRIORS WHO COULD BE BRAVE WITHOUT BLASTERS, AND CONTENT WITH SHIELDS OF BRONZE ...WHAT THEY GOT WERE ROMANS GAIUS VIBULENAS: From a raw kid, he became an accomplished soldier--and a leader of men....

  • 'Cause I Served My Time in Hell

    in Rebels in Hell

    All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, a...

  • Lacey and His Friends

    Jed Lacey is a 21st-century cop who plays by the rules. His rules. Maybe there are worse things than having him come after you, but they aren't survivable either. The United States of Lacey's day has imposed law and order with cameras that scan...

  • Kill Ratio

  • Dagger

    Thieves' World - 5
    Thieves' World

    Caravan master, warrior extraordinaire, Samlor hil Samt had come to the foul city of Sanctuary to protect his niece's claim in a secret inheritance. Yet something dark and savage lurked in the shadowed streets--born of the mystical dagger Samlor dare...

  • Men Hunting Things

    Starhunters - 1

  • Fleet

    The Fleet - 1

    PLEDGED TO PROTECT US ALL. Mankind has taken one step too far in exploring the galaxy--and run smack up against the Khalia. Vicious carnivores whose culture is totally different from our own, they take no prisoners. Ever. Just the occasional slave...



  • Things Hunting Men

    Starhunters - 2

  • The Sea Hag

    The World of Crystal Walls

    FROM PALACE Dennis flees the crystal walls of Emath when he learns the truth behind the city his father rules. TO WILDERNESS The jungle enfolds him, tests his sword arm with monsters and his courage with nightmares more terrible than any monste...

  • Counter Attack

    The Fleet - 2

    Pledged to protect us all The soldiers of the Alliance come from different worlds, different cultures. But they share a common mission: to reclaim occupied space from the savage Khalian invaders. The ruthless aliens, armed with lasers and plasma c...

  • Explorers in Hell

  • Vettius and His Friends

    For centuries Rome ruled the most diverse grouping of races and cultures ever under a single dominion. But sorcerous powers as black as Time itself gather barbarians to shatter Roman peace. Vettius, a soldier as ruthless as his age demands and Dama, ...

  • Space Gladiators

  • Cluster Command

    Crisis of Empire - 2

    THEIR FINEST HOUR,OR THEIR FINAL DAYS...The First Empire has entered what may very well be its last crisis: the Emperor is dead by assassination and has left an infant heir. Worse, the imperial mystique is but a fading memory: nobody believes in empi...

  • A Separate Star

  • Rolling Hot

    Hammer's Slammers - 4

    The Troops Captain Ranson: she needed a rest; she'd been handed a disaster. Birdie Sparrow: he and the ghost haunting him were seasoned veterans. Hans Wager: the enemy didn't worry him as much as his own tank did. Dick Suilin: he started as a civi...

  • Heads to the Storm

    Eyes to the future, heads to the storm, the heirs of Rudyard kipling have written some of the most profound and thrillling science fiction in the English language. Some of the very best are gathered here to pay tribute to the man who inspired them al...



  • Space Infantry

  • Counting the Cost

    Hammer's Slammers - 3

    Colonel Alois Hammer's indomitable armored brigade attempts to win a two-front war against an overwhelming foreign foe while protecting the existing civilian power structures against the opposition of religious fanatics...

  • Breakthrough

    The Fleet - 3

    Pledged to protect us all World-crushing war rages between the human/alien Alliance and the predatory Khalians. Courageous soldiers from all corners of the galaxy, the Alliance Fleet retaliates with blinding force--reclaiming conquered worlds, rep...

  • The Eternal City

    ROME When her legions crashed across half the world, they created an empfretllated a thousaiid years--and legends, that will last forever. Join ROBERT E. HOWARD DAVID DRAKE C. J. CHERRYH POUL ANDERSON GORDON R. DICKSON and more, in tales...

  • Total War

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    The Fleet - 5

    National bestselling authors in the breakthrough military science fiction series.

    The Fleet must destroy a human foe capable of infiltrating the Fleet itself.

    Includes stories by:

    Anne McCaffrey * Katherine Kurtz and Scott ...

  • Bluebloods

    Starhunters - 3

  • Sworn Allies

    The Fleet - 4

    PLEDGED TO PROTECT US ALL In the remote darkness of space, they've fought the most fiery battles the stars will ever witness. On hellish planets with poisoned atmospheres, they ward off the ruthless Khalian horde. Now, the brave men and women of t...

  • Northworld

    WORLDS AT WAR The Consensus ruled twelve hundred worlds--but not Northworld. Three fleets had been dispatched to probe the enigma of Northworld. None returned. Now, Commissioner Nils Hansen must face the challenge of this distant planet ... a gat...

  • Space Dreadnoughts

    Massive and arrogant, they patrol the final war zone - deep space. All great battleships before them - the celebrated fleet of the Spanish Armada, the mighty gunboats of the British Navy - are mere toys in comparision. In their armoured bellies swarm...

  • Surface Action

    Seas of Venus - 1

    THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF EARTH FIF NOT END THE BATTLES OF MANKIND But it did impose certain rules on the wars of Venus. Nuclear weapons were banned. The survivors of Earth lived in domed colonies beneath the sea, and their battles were fought on t...



  • Crisis

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    The Fleet - 6

    Humanity joins forces with its centuries-old enemy, the Khalians, to combat a common foe--the Syndicate of Families--that stands poised to seize control of the known universe, in an anthology that features stories by Christopher Stasheff, Poul Anders...

  • The Forlorn Hope

    MARCH CROSS-COUNTRY 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 Mercenaries is driven across ...

  • Vengeance

    Northworld - 2

    When the heartless rulers of the galaxy send Captain North and his crew to study a new planet, they mysteriously disappear. Then after three more fleets of ships vanish, the rulers decide they have no choice but to send out one mor...

  • At Any Price

    Hammer's Slammers - 2

  • The Warrior

    Hammer's Slammers - 5

    THEY WERE THE BEST COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER. He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. LUKE BROGLIE: His brilliant mind could have succeeded in any business; but war was the business he...

  • The Military Dimension

  • The Jungle

    Seas of Venus - 2

    Venturing to the surface of the sea to wage war for the Keeps--the domed undersea worlds where human colonists live on Venus--Ensign Brainard and his mercenary naval troops are about to face their greatest foe. Reprint....

  • Old Nathan

    The forces of evil, both natural and supernatural, are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But first they''ll have to overcome some very unusual residents of the hills and va...

  • Clash by Night

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  • Justice

    Northworld - 3

    ARMORED APOCALYPSE A world of eight warring planes, where gods and men battle for mastery of the Matrix, a high-tech bridge through space and time. A world where weaponry is the supreme art. Where peace can be crueler than combat. Where a single b...



  • Starliner

    The Empress of Earth Finest passenger liner in the galaxy -- Brightest link in the chain that binds the starflung civilization of the 23rd century -- Six thousand lives in a single hull, trembling through multiple universes to land on raw, oft...

  • Skyripper

    Tom Kelly - 1

    Professor Emil Vlasov, the Soviet Union's top physicist, sets out to turn over to the Americans plans for top-secret anti-missile lasers in order to prevent an alien invasion of Earth, an invasion that only Vlasov knows about--or believes in. Origina...

  • Battlestation

    When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships. Original....

  • The Sharp End

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    Introducing a new kind of Hammer's Stammer: A survey team looking for trouble out on The Sharp End The gangs ruled Cantilucca. Guns were the only law, and there was no lack of guns. It was hard to imagine matters getting worse. THEN THE SURVEY...

  • Vanguard

  • Blind Hunger

    Patty Hunsacker, a recently widowed blind woman, welcomes a stranger into her home who claims to be her husband's twin brother but is, in fact, her husband returned from the dead as a vampire. By the author of Brain Fever. Original....

  • The Square Deal

    Car Warriors - 1

  • Blood and War

    The human race had settled more than a hundred worlds before it met the Emerging Planets Fairness Court -- six alien species who sit in judgment on all galactic newcomers. Humanity must now pass the EPFC test. Soon the human fleets find themselves un...

  • Tyrannosaur

  • The Voyage

    Hammer's Slammers

    Lissea Doorman wasn't one to refuse a challenge. Challenged by the rulers of Telaria to run a suicide mission, she put together a crew of tough mercenaries and brilliant specialists, ready for anything. Their journey took them through strange worlds,...

  • Igniting the Reaches

    His acclaimed novel Hammer's Slammers is considered one of the classics of military science fiction. Now David Drake once again takes us on an epic journey to the farthest reaches of space... A millennium after the great Collapse of the human empi...

  • Arc Riders

    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....

  • Through the Breach

    His acclaimed novel Hammer's Slammers has become one of the all-time classics of military science fiction. His novel Igniting the Reaches launched a bold new epic of cosmic conquest. Now David Drake returns to that savage frontier of space--where pir...

  • The Military Dimension: Mark II

    CONFLICT! * AN ARMORED BATTALION IN VIET NAM MEETS AN ENEMY OLDER THAN HUMANITY * COMMANDOS STORM AN ALIEN PRISON CAMP--AND LEARN THERE ARE WORSE FATES THAN DEATH. * A PERIMETER GUARD DOES HIS JOB--FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Soldiers, doing ...

  • The 4th Rome

  • To Bring the Light

    AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT PADWAY: The Roman Empire had spread order, knowledge. and civilization throughout the ancient world. When Rome fell, the light of reason flickered out across the Empire. The Dark Ages had begun; they would last a thousan...

  • All the Way to the Gallows

    Widely known for the grim and gritty battlefield realism of his bestselling adventures of Hammer's Slammers, and for other popular novels of military science fiction, David Drake now takes deadly aim at the funnvbone. Meet the goblin paratroopers and...

  • Patriots

    Revolt on a frontier planet! The corrupt government of Earth is sending an army to the planet of Greenwood in order to remove the pioneers who found and settled the planet. The potential profits are too great to leave an entire planet to the scrag...

  • Fireships

    Fending off a Federation attempt to take over her ship, intergalactic pirate captain Sarah Blythe vows to make the Federation President pay for her cargo losses and plans to join the Venus rebellion. Reprint....

  • Redliners

    THE MISSION: REDEMPTION-OR DEATH The troops were walking dead already, so there wasn't much of a downside. Major Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming me...

  • Lord of the Isles

    Lord of the Isles - 1

    With Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure set in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. In the days fo...

  • The Tank Lords

    THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS! COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthle...

  • With the Lightnings

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    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 1

    A FRIENDSHIP FORGED IN HELL! Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects...

  • Armageddon

    Twelve Armageddon stories follow such plotlines as a small African country's Yuletide preparations, a phone company's direct-dial service to the world of the dead, and a war between Pharaoh's army and the Peoples of the Sea. Original....

  • Caught in the Crossfire

    Hammer's Slammers

    THEY WERE THE BEST--THEY WERE HAMMER'S SLAMMERS! In war, the only rule is survival. People on the side that hires Hammer's Slammers have the best chance of surviving. Mercenary leader Alois Hammer has created an armored regiment that wins battl...

  • Queen of Demons

    Lord of the Isles - 2

    In the world of the Isles, the elemental forces of magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. A small band of companions has set forth across a world in the process of transformation in search of their destinies. Now their epic adventure continues....

  • The Butcher's Bill

    Hammer's Slammers

    YOU THOUGHT VICTORY CAME CHEAP? Tanks don't fight without crews. The men and women who crew Colonel Hammer's tanks are the best in the human universe--and they're ready to prove it for anybody who can afford to hire them. Facing an enemy whose ...

  • Fortress

    Tom Kelly - 2

    Fortress is America''s guarantor of freedom, an orbiting arsenal of laser weapons and nuclear missiles. It was considered impregnable—until now. Former CIA officer Tom Kelley is sent to learn the secrets surrounding a dead alien found in Tur...

  • Servant of the Dragon

    Lord of the Isles - 3

    Return again to the world of the Isles in Servant of the Dragon, a world with hundreds of warring kingdoms without a single overlord for many centuries. Now the sources of magic are reaching a thousand-year peak, and the present generation of sorcere...

  • Lt. Leary, Commanding

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 2

    INTO HARM'S WAY! Lieutenant Daniel Leary of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy commands the corvette Princess Cecile; his friend Signals Officer Adele Mundy has the latest in spy apparatus and the skill to prowl the most tightly guarded database. All t...

  • Foreign Legions

    Lots of soldiers work for civilians they don't like, but these millennia-old Romans had it worse than most--their commanders were blue-skinned aliens! The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling...

  • Mistress of the Catacombs

    Lord of the Isles - 4

    For the first time in a thousand years, the Kingdom of the Isles has a government and a real ruler: Garric of Haft. But the enemies joining against him intend to destroy not only the kingdom but humankind as well. Reptilian and insect monsters from o...

  • Dogs of War

    Military authors have entered the mainstream science fiction genre and continue to leave their mark. David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by collecting ten classic stories of men-at-arms by top writers including himself....

  • Paying the Piper

    Hammer's Slammers

    When the tariff dispute on Plattner's World exploded into war, the United Cities hired the best mercenaries money could buy: HAMMER'S SLAMMERS Lt. Arne Huber was old enough to be a veteran but still young enough to have principles. From his fir...

  • The Real Jungle: Belize 2001

    Seas of Venus - 3

    On Venus, where survivors of the human race struggle to live in domed undersea Keeps, two determined soldiers--Ensign Brainard and Johnnie Gordon brave the treacherous web of intrigue in the Keeps and the perilous surface jungles to ensure the surviv...

  • Seas of Venus

    On Venus, where survivors of the human race struggle to live in domed undersea Keeps, two determined soldiers--Ensign Brainard and Johnnie Gordon brave the treacherous web of intrigue in the Keeps and the perilous surface jungles to ensure the surviv...

  • Grimmer Than Hell

    YOU DON'T NEED SAINTS TO FACE RUTHLESS ENEMIES--YOU NEED HEROES! THE FLEET The Khalians are weasel shaped and weasel vicious; their main concern with humanity is the way humans taste. Behind the Khalians are others: stronger, smarter, and mor...

  • Goddess of the Ice Realm

    Lord of the Isles

    Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, are young brother and sister pairs whose destiny is to reunite the kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. As Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, his benign ...

  • The Far Side of the Stars

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 3

    While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, th...

  • Master of the Cauldron

    Lord of the Isles

    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,...

  • The Way to Glory

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 4

    NO GUTS, NO GLORY Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but politics have put him under an officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute men out of hand. Signals Officer Adele Mundy has repeatedly proved her loyalty as Cinnabar's most acc...

  • A Land of Romance

    in The Enchanter Completed

    For seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales with a strong humorous element. Now, Hugo-winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has gathered together...

  • The Fortress of Glass

    The Crown of the Isles - 1

    The Fortress of Glass is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. A true trilogy, the action extends over the whole three-book arc. The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingd...

  • Other Times Than Peace

    THEY MAY NOT BE FLAWLESS HEROES -- BUT THEY'LL GET THE JOB DONE In the past, the present, or the future, life is grim and often short for the few who protect the many, usually for little pay, less gratitude, and dim prospects of growing old. *A squ...

  • Some Golden Harbor

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 5

    The tyrannical Alliance continues its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son...

  • Balefires

    Balefires is the long-awaited collection of David Drake's weird and fantastic fiction. Before Drake was a best-selling author of military science fiction, he was a prolific writer of horror and fantasy short fiction. Balefires collects some of his ea...

  • The Mirror of Worlds

    The Crown of the Isles - 2

    The Mirror of the Worlds is the second in David Drake's 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 bein...

  • When the Tide Rises

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 6

    When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagari...

  • The Gods Return

    The Crown of the Isles - 3

    The Isles have been more or less unified under Garric's rule, but the Change that created the continent has removed the old Gods of the Isles from reality and released other Gods from other planes of existence. Now the servants of the forbidden Go...

  • In the Stormy Red Sky

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 7

    DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADY ADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THIS TIME AS THEY FACE: • A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election--and still powerful enou...

  • The Legions of Fire

    The Books of the Elements - 1

    In this novel of magical menace to the survival of all humanity, David Drake introduces a new fantasy world, Carce, based on Europe during the later Roman Empire. Far in the north, a group of magicians perform a strange dance on a volcanic island ...

  • What Distant Deeps

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 8

    NO REST FOR THE LEARY Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion -- but t...

  • Battlestations

    • When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships... and the overstressed crew prepares for a direct as...

  • Out of the Waters

    The Books of the Elements - 2

    The wealthy Governor Saxa, of the great city of Carce, has generously and lavishly subsidized a theatrical/religious event. During this elaborate staging of Hercules founding a city on the shores of Lusitania, strange and dark magic turns the panoply...

  • Loose Cannon

    Tom Kelly - 3

    SkyripperDuring the Cold War, a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens, but only the U.S. has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry. Enter Tom Kelly, American spy, navigator of the U.S. intelligence a...

  • The Road of Danger

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 9

    Captain Daniel Leary with his friend -- and spy -- Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending the...

  • Night and Demons

    A collection of horrific, weird, and fantastic tales by a master storyteller and creator of best-selling military science fiction. Here are weird stories set in the present, along with alternative histories filled with gritty realism and exacting det...

  • Monsters of the Earth

    The Books of the Elements - 3

    Governor Saxa, of the great city of Carce, a fantasy analog of ancient Rome, is rusticating at his villa. When Saxa’s son Varus accompanies Corylus on a visit to the household of his father, Crispus, a retired military commander, Saxa graciously jo...

  • The Sea Without a Shore

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 10

    Cinnabar's chief spymaster is a mother also--and her son is determined to search for treasure in the midst of a civil war. Who better to hold the boy's hand -- and to take the blows directed at him -- than Captain Daniel Leary, the Republic of Cinnab...

  • Dinosaurs and A Dirigible

    All five of David Drake's time travel stories collected for the first time in one volume, including dinosaur tale "Time Safari." Henry Vickers's job is to keep clients safe from the dinosaurs they're hunting. That's the easy part. The hard part is...

  • Hope Reformed

    Contains Books #7 and #8, THE REFORMER and THE TYRANT, in the best-selling General series The Empire of Man has fallen and a new Dark Age is upon the stars. With planets cut off and reduced to subsistence and ignorance, humanity has nearly forgott...

  • Air and Darkness

    The Books of the Elements - 4

    Air and Darkness, an intriguing and fantastic adventure, is both an independent novel and the gripping conclusion of the Books of the Elements, a four-volume set of fantasies set in Carce, an analog of ancient Rome by David Drake. Here the stakes are...

  • Death's Bright Day

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 11

    Leary and Mundy are back in another military science fiction adventure as they undertake a mission to a distant but critical star system. IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER. Captain Daniel Leary thinks that his marriage will allow ...

  • Up From Hell

    Taranis and his men forage for the collected tribes of the Crow as they march against the Romans, but he brings back more than he bargained for when he frees a beautiful and mysterious prisoner, Alpnu. Together they face a power sealed in a cave for ...

  • The Spark

    Time of Heroes - 1

    In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise. In the time of the Ancients the universe was united -- but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that a fe...

  • Though Hell Should Bar the Way

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 12

    FROM WEALTH AND POWER, TO POVERTY AND INSULTS! Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy, but when his father was unmasked as a white-collar criminal he had to take whatever he was offered. What is offered turns out...

  • The Storm

    Time of Heroes - 2

    THE THRILLING RE-TELLING OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUES! A young Champion must rescue a friend and battle an enemy at the heart of a chaotic world. The universe has shattered into chaos and mon...

  • To Clear Away the Shadows

    Republic of Cinnabar Navy - 13

    ADVENTURES BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict. Th...

  • The Serpent

    Time of Heroes - 3

    THE ARTHURIAN-INSPIRED FAR-FUTURE TALES FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUE!Jon of Dun Add has created a civilization where before there had only been isolated pockets of humanity in a shattered cosmos. Young knight Pal i...

  • Aftermath

    The mercenary Stepsons leave Sanctuary behind in this tenth volume of the shared-world fantasy anthology series. As Tempus and his mercenary army, the Stepsons, depart from war-torn Sanctuary, there are some who view it as a return to normal. Yet wha...

  • The Far Stars War

    We asked David Drake to Start A War....Isolated by the light years that lie between them and Earth's established colonies, the pioneers on the outskirts of the galaxy suddenly face a merciless enemy—the Guerin. An alien warrior race of unsurpas...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Drake has published 120 books.

David Drake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Far Stars War, was published in August 2023.

The first book by David Drake, The Dragon Lord, was published in January 1979.

Yes. David Drake has 13 series.
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