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Grimmer Than Hell by [David Drake]

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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 more vicious still.

Captain Miklos Kowacs and the men and women of Marine Reaction Company 121, the Headhunters, have faced the Khalians on the front lines: now they're taking the war to the enemy, freeing captured planets from their bestial conquerors and penetrating even the Khalian horneworld.

But the worst dangers to Kowacs and his Headhunters come from traitors who wear the same uniform!

BATTLESTATION

The only chance of defeating the Ichtons is to capture one one alive. No human battlefleet could hope to do that—but just maybe a lone scout like Sergeant Dresser could.

Anyway, he has to try. The Ichtons don't conquer their enemies: they destroy them utterly.

LACEY

In the not-too-distant future, government cameras watch every soul in North America. Only the most cunning and powerful imagine they can commit a crime and escape punishment, and they become the prey of hunters like Jed Lacey.

Lacey has neither hopes nor fears, and he has no mercy at ad. There's never been anybody better at what he does.

WARRIORS ALL

There've always been men and women willing to stand between humanity and the worst the universe has to offer. The trouble is, they can't stay human and do their jobs—and they must do their jobs.

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From Publishers Weekly

As the title suggests, most of the 14 stories (many of which first appeared in "shared universe" theme anthologies) in this collection from military SF master Drake are unrelenting in their depiction of the brutalities of war and its effect on warriors. Two tales stand out: "With the Sword He Must Be Slain," in which a former CIA paramilitary operative now fights for Hell in the Final War and wonders why the opposing forces are just as messed up as his own troops; and "The Tradesmen" (set in S.M. Stirling's "Draka" universe), in which the very ruthlessness of a Draka partisan-hunter leaves her family vulnerable to a terrible irony. In the three long unavailable Jed Lacey stories, set in a near-future where privacy is a crime, Drake examines the price we'd pay both as a society and as individuals if omnipresent cameras recorded our every moment. These stories serve as cautionary tales to those who would trade freedom for security but forget Benjamin Franklin's appraisal of the bargain (i.e., those who do so "end up with neither").
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From Booklist

Fourteen short stories and an introduction make up the latest, highly recommended collection from a leading light of military sf. The first six stories, as much space opera as military sf, constitute Drake's contribution to the shared (by several writers) world series The Fleet, and the final three, featuring future policeman Lacey, recall the contents of Lacey and His Friends (1986). Lacey, like many other early Drake protagonists, has very few friends; in his society, however, most people aren't to be trusted with friendship. Ditto for conditions in the shared-world story "The Tradesmen," from Drakas! (2000), a shared-world opus amassed by S. M. Stirling and set in his Draka universe. Distinctly Drakean single shots include "With the Sword He Must Be Slain," and the introduction puts everything in perspective with a minimum of apologetics, compressing Drake's psychological history since the Vietnam War into a short essay valuable to new and old fans alike. Roland Green
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00APAHHQA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen Books; 1st edition (February 1, 2003)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2003
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 944 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 448 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,278,115 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,286 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #3,276 in Fiction Anthologies
- #5,329 in Literary Anthologies & Collections

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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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Michael J. Sutherland

If you like David Drake, this is some of his best work

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2022

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There are two types of science fiction readers, those who don't like David Drake (or perhaps never read his work or any military SF), and those who love his work. If you like David Drake (and perhaps other military SF works), this is a solid collection of his best work (outside of Redliners, which is his best ever). Most of the stories come from "The Fleet" anthologies of short military and space opera science fiction that was edited by Drake and Bill Fawcett in the late 80's early 90's about one particular unit. From there, he brings in some of his other short stories published elsewhere (magazines) into this one volume. This is a must have for any fan of his short fiction work who may not have found "The Fleet" "Battlestation" or "Lacey and his friends" when they have been collected previously (or maybe you lost those magazines and books you first read those stories in...).

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022

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Wow! David Drake writes powerful stories that are Grim and Bleak, but full of Humanity and Hope! Powerful Science Fiction!

Nathan Campbell

Good (but dark) read

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2015

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Basically a collection of stories by David Drake. Quite dark and gritty, not for the squeamish. I am a long time reader of David Drake and this is dark even for him, read the forward to better understand why. Overall a very enjoyable read.

Another awesome collection from Mr.Drake!

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019

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Keep them coming Dave, we love your work.
The soldiers perspective gives much more creedence to your tales.
Thank you,
The Chief

Thomas E. Wheat

Great Collection of short Si Fi Miltary tales

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014

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A look into the mind of David Drake from the time of his service in Nam.He brings to us a collection of short stories dealing with very realistic and gripping military adventures.A good read for any si fi military readers.

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Science fiction adventure.

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2008

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An absolutely great read, very little in the way of redeeming qualities, but very fast and interesting. It does extoll the virtues of loyalty, duty and honor. With that in mind, it is an excellent action book set in the far future. Those future Marines had ancestors at Belleau Wood and Tarawa.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016

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Great book, one of my favorite Drake books.

Stewart Teaze - Embedded/Robotics Engineer

Good collection of militaristic David Drake short stories

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2008

This is a good collection of militaristic David Drake short stories. Most of the stories were written in the 90's, and most of them (but not all) are future science fiction.

The first three stories are about THE FLEET, and cover the exploits of a company of Space Marines, who go on a lot of interdiction missions, and none of which expect to die of old age.

The middle of the book contains a wide variety of different shorter stories, most of which are memorable.

The last three stories are about a futuristic 22nd century cop "from the south", who lives in a world where cameras are as common place as in Orwell's 1984... but with super recording and playback + computer search technology that Orwell couldn't even have begun to imagine.

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