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{{quote|"Holy sh--" Finch screamed.
There was a loud plop. A brown geyser spouted above the floor and sank back.}}
* ''[[The Books Of The Elements]]'': [[Roman Empire|Ancient Rome]] [[Recycled in Space|With Magic]]!
* [[Redliners]]: Science fiction story of a burnt out elite unit assigned to guard involuntary colonists on a [[Death World]]. In a weird way, it mixes a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] with [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] by taking [[War Is Hell]] to its logical conclusion--what do you do with, and how can you help, the [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]], when the war is over?
* ''Forlorn Hope'' - Sci-fi foreign mercenaries fight their way out of encirclement and then fight their way off-world when their employers betray them.
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The [[Belisarius Series]] and [[The General]] series have their own articles with trope examples. Again, click on their '''Related to...''' links to find tropes with examples from those series.
* [[The Quiet One]]: Tovera, Adele Mundy's aide. Subverted in that she's a tiny female. So self-effacing
* Occasionally drops [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to modern culture into his work. A punning one was in ''The Sharp End'' when a ship from the Marvelan Confederacy was known as the ''[[Silver Surfer|Argent Server]]''.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Adele Mundy from the [[RCN]], Joachim Steuben from ''[[Hammers Slammers]]'', Hussein ben Mehdi from ''The Forlorn Hope'', Stephen Gregg from ''The Reaches''.... And that's not counting how, in ''The General'' and its follow-ons, Center can augment someone's marksmanship to levels that leave hardened soldiers staring in awe.
* [[Take That]]: Critic Charles Platt described ''Hammer's Slammers'' as, to quote Drake's summary, "queasy voyeurism," and said that if David Drake had ever seen war, he wouldn't write such things. Drake is a Vietnam veteran; see the quote at the top of the page. If you're a character in one of Drake's books and your name is "Platt," about the best you can hope for is to be stupid; financial corruption and/or unsavory sexual tastes may feature as well.
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