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The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781439133347; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-10 Summary: Loved It! ... This is a terrific collection of short stories about different characters on different planets that have brought in mercenaries to fight their wars for them. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-08-07 Summary: people who want a flavor of what War is really like. ... The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume II By David Drake (2006) The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume II contains: An Introduction by David G. Hartwell Foreword: We Happy Few At Any Price Counting the Cost Rolling Hot The Warrior The Day of Glory Afterword: what's for sale I highly recommend this book for David Drake fans and for people who want a flavor of what War is really like. Gunner August, 2008 ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-04-22 Summary: Hammer's Slamers II ... More great Hammers stories and some background on David Drake and how the stories got written. ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-12-28 Summary: Good Collection of HAMMER'S SLAMMERS stories ... VOLUME TWO of THE COMPLETE HAMMER'S SLAMMERS is a good collection of novella sized stories, mostly from the late-80's. Following are individual reviews of each of the main stories: AT ANY PRICE (1985) **** - A breakthru story for its day... Military SciFi, with aliens. Drake's combat action dialog is hard to follow at times in this story, but still worth it. COUNTING THE COST (1987) *** - A Company of Hammer's Slammers (a spaceborne Mercenary Regiment) gets mixed up in the wranglings of a backwater world in political ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | The second of a three volume run collecting David Drake's complete Hammer's Slammers series....more
The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781439133347; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-10 Summary: Loved It! ... This is a terrific collection of short stories about different characters on different planets that have brought in mercenaries to fight their wars for them. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-08-07 Summary: people who want a flavor of what War is really like. ... The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume II By David Drake (2006) The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume II contains: An Introduction by David G. Hartwell Foreword: We Happy Few At Any Price Counting the Cost Rolling Hot The Warrior The Day of Glory Afterword: what's for sale I highly recommend this book for David Drake fans and for people who want a flavor of what War is really like. Gunner August, 2008 ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-04-22 Summary: Hammer's Slamers II ... More great Hammers stories and some background on David Drake and how the stories got written. ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-12-28 Summary: Good Collection of HAMMER'S SLAMMERS stories ... VOLUME TWO of THE COMPLETE HAMMER'S SLAMMERS is a good collection of novella sized stories, mostly from the late-80's. Following are individual reviews of each of the main stories: AT ANY PRICE (1985) **** - A breakthru story for its day... Military SciFi, with aliens. Drake's combat action dialog is hard to follow at times in this story, but still worth it. COUNTING THE COST (1987) *** - A Company of Hammer's Slammers (a spaceborne Mercenary Regiment) gets mixed up in the wranglings of a backwater world in political ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | The second of a three volume run collecting David Drake's complete Hammer's Slammers series....more
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780061473081; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-08-21 Summary: Rock Gods For Sure! ... Love this band they can do no wrong in my eyes. Definately the best heavy rock band ever. There will never be another Jimmy or Robert, the combination was magic. Loved the book hard to put it down, very raw! ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-08-17 Summary: A Tale of Excess, but not too excessive ... This is a well written book and an easy read. I have read many other rock n roll bio's and this one stacks up as follows: Drugs: Cocaine, some heroin. Anecdotes are the best- no real withdrawl or scoring stories, minimal arrest tales. Sex: Some teenage type perversity, nothing really sick. Some pedophila suggested. Groupie talk is OK, but nothing really shocking. Rock n Roll: The best part of the book. Learning about the professional history of the band and some personal history. Great to know the origins of some of ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Their tours were legendary, their lives were exalted—and in an era well known for sex and drugs, the mighty Zeppelin set an unattainable standard of excess and mythos for any band that tried to follow them. They were power, they were fantasy, they were black magic. No band...more
The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume I
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781439133095; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-03-07 Summary: Mechanized warfare in the far future ... This is the first in a three volume compilation of all the Hammer's Slammers stories (short stories, novellas, and novels) written by David Drake. Hammer's Slammers is a fictional mercenary armored regiment that is hired out by various organizations, planetary governments, commercial interests, etc. to fight their battles. The Slammers typically provide the mobile muscle for any indigenous forces and have proven decisive in a large number of campaigns. The unit's name is derived from that of its commander/owner, Alois ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-12-17 Summary: More of a Best Of than Complete ... I actually bought the e-book directly from Baen, and was hoping that it would contain all of his stories. However, I was mildly disappointed to find that it was more of a "Best Of" than the "Complete" Hammer's Slammers, especially since many of the early books like The Warrior is out of print. That said, I am really enjoying reading some stories that I haven't read in many many moons. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | With a veteran’s eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of tank combat in his Hammer’s Slammers fiction. The Slammers are neither cartoon heroes nor propaganda villains; rather they are competent professionals engaged in a deadly business. The inevitable conflicts between policy, necessity, and human nature make Drake’s Slammers fiction instantly identifiable and utterly compelling. This is the first of a three volume set presenting for...more
The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781892389800; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-11-18 Summary: I love Hammer's Slammers. ... I collected all the individual books in the Hammer's Slammers series. When the consolidated collection came out I bought them, too. I enjoy the action, and the insight into the military mind-set. I also like the fact that the Slammers always win, although often at considerable cost. It is salutary to consider the collateral damage, in material destroyed, people killed and ecology harmed. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-04-27 Summary: Hammer's slammers Vol 3 ... A good add to your David Drake Library. Put it in there with Vol 1 & 2. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This three volume set presents for the first time the genre-defining Slammers series in a uniform hardcover set. This volume features the final two Slammers novels, The Sharp End and Paying the Piper, as well as an original novelette, The Darkness. This volume will feature an introduction by Barry Malzberg, and cover art by John Berkey....more
Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780393067187; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-12-30 Summary: quick, witty, and enjoyable ... This may be the first book I've read which referenced the Ripper murders that didn't annoy me. The weird irony of this book is that the Ripper murders are going on and our Heroine, Grace, considers them a tabloid annoyance, wrapped as she is in her own problems. I'll save you the suspense: none of the characters named in the book are the Ripper. It's just a contemporary event that Stockbridge threw in there to lend verisimilitude. Now that that's out of the way, Grace Hammer is a cool, collected lady who knows what ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-09-19 Summary: A Spoon Full of Sugar to Help the Medicine Go Down ... There are a few books which I can say that the negatives and the positives are in almost complete balance. Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld is, for better or worse, one of those books. Sara Stockbridge's writing reminds me, in some ways, of Victorian writers . . . full of complex sentences, an intimate narrator, and lengthy, blow-by-blow scenic descriptions. The problem is, however, that the complex sentences are often needlessly so and, although complex they are not always well-written; the intimate ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-09-16 Summary: "What she was stealing: a deadly thing, a burden and a curse." ... Grace Hammer is a very unusual Victorian heroine, a jewel among the unpolished stones of late 19th century London, particularly in the East End, where streetwalkers rub elbows with pickpockets and reprobates of every ilk, where vice is profitable and life is cheap. Grace has made a niche for herself in this aberrant society; a thief, she has created a comfortable home for four children (by different fathers), a natural survivor ever on the lookout for opportunity. Unfortunately, Grace's past is just as checkered as ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | An engrossing suspense novel set in Victorian London—about stolen fortunes, romance, murder, and revenge. Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of London’s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace’s history is about to catch up with her. Out in the countryside Mr. Blunt rocks in his chair, vowing furious retribution. He has...more