Explorers in Hell [Paperback]

Janet Morris (Author), David Drake (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Baen (July 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671698133
• ISBN-13: 978-0671698133
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #674,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn't run fast enough to get away.

Dave returned to become Chapel Hill's Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.

Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader's hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer's Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.

Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.

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3.0 out of 5 stars a minor work by both authors, May 3, 2008

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This review is from: Explorers in Hell (Paperback)

This was one in a series of Hell books. An amusing fantasy framework. But the problem in this book and the rest of the series is that things never really go anywhere. Both Morris and Drake write competently here. The combat scenes are well told. However, by the end of the book, if you step back, you realise that there wasn't much present. Wheels spinning loose.

The series eventually petered out by around 1990, for what may have been basically this reason.