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How do you handle semi-intelligent drops of what appears to be parasitic solder? Add to that a helmet composed of several of these creatures that is intelligent and evil.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- David Drake
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Baen
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671698454
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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
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