Book Shelf 23-9 – David Drake, Robosoldiers: Thank You For Your Servos, Protected Species, and Storming the Gap: First Strike

David Drake Standing Down¹ with Robosoldiers

I was deeply saddened this last week to hear of the death of David Drake. For me he will always be the voice of Hammer’s Slammers.

One of the last books where Mr. Drake published in is Robosoldiers: Thank You For Your Servos, an anthology edited by Stephen Lawson for Baen Books in 2022. Mr. Drakes contribution, “Uncovered Data,” is in many ways a fitting last story as it relates to an interrogator; the same job Drake himself performed in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War in an armored cavalry regiment.

Caine on

The latest in the Caine Riordan series by Charles E. Gannon, Protected Species, delivered this past two weeks. I started reading but put it aside when David Drake passed to read Robosoldiers. Now to get back to this continuing story of a lost military unit.

Storming the Gap

The most recent new book taken in is Storming the Gap: First Strike – A World at War 85 Novel by Brad Smith and printed by wargame publisher Lock n’ Load. Yes, this is a novel tie-in to the wargame World at War 85: Storming the Gap (Lock n’ Load, 2019) that I picked up on sale along with the hefty World at War 85: Storming the Gap – The Expansion Pack.

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1. “Standing Down” was one of the stories originally published in the first Hammer’s Slammers volume of 1979. ↩︎

Feature image courtesy GZG

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