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* "Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin."
* "His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U. S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the [[wikipedia:11th ACR|11th Armored Cavalry]] in Vietnam and Cambodia."
* From [http://www.david-drake.com/north.html Notes on Northworld] on David Drake's website: "I made what I thought was a pointless change from my normal procedure by adding a short afterword to ''Northworld.''...Lo and behold, all the reviews of ''Northworld'' noted the intricate play of Norse myth in the novel. Well, yes; I'd precised the ''Elder Edda'', the ''Prose Edda'', and the ''Volsungensaga'' before I even started to plot. But I always work that way: I'd outlined all of Procopius' works save for ''The Buildings'' before I started plotting my first novel, ''The Dragon Lord.'' The only difference with ''Northworld'' was that I told the reviewers what I'd done; and, being told, they were able to see what I in my innocence had thought was obvious. Live and learn. I frequently write explanatory essays now."
Anecdote on book covers from [http://www.david-drake.com/north.html Notes on Northworld] at David Drake's website:
* "While I was writing Northworld, Beth called to ask what the book was about because they needed to put a cover on it. I sent her a scene of people dueling in powered personal armor. Beth called back in a week. "We had a cover conference on your book," she said. "We're going to put a tank on the cover. Is there a tank in the book?" I told her that there would be, now that I'd been told about the cover. And there is."
=== Major Series ===▼
▲== Major Series ==
* The Lt. Leary series, loosely based off the 18th century British navy, complete with spaceships that travel through hyperspace using sails. However, the sails are handled fairly realistically: stripping a ship's sails with a plasma cannon is a quick and easy way to keep it from escaping into hyperspace, the sails need to be furled and stowed before entering an atmosphere, and when deployed, interfere with the ship's realspace maneuvering and combat.
** Also known as
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* ''The Reaches'': ''Igniting the Reaches'', ''Through the Breach'', and ''Fireships''. Set a thousand years after the collapse of an interstellar government, and based on the period when Spanish and British exploration and exploitation were colliding in the New World, with particular inspiration from the exploits of Sir Francis Drake (no relation). The planet Venus fills the role of Britain (ruled by [[The Virgin Queen|Governor Halys]]), while Spain is played by the Canada-based government of North America.
=== Selected Other Works ===▼
▲== Selected Other Works ==
* ''[[Ranks of Bronze]]'': The campaigns of an ancient Roman Legion captured by aliens who survive as a mercenary army used on low-tech planets.
* ''Patriots'': Sci-fi retelling of Ethan Allen's capture of the British Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War.
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** This novel was originally intended as a pastiche novel of Robert E. Howard's historical adventure character Cormac Mac Art. Drake re-wrote it when the pastiche was declined.
* The March Up Country: Xenophon [[Recycled in Space]].
[http://www.david-drake.com/bibliography.html Full Bibliography] at David Drake's website. Not quite up to date at the time of this writing (Mar, 2009).
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* The ''[[Belisarius Series]]''
* ''[[The General]]'' series
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* [[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.▼
* [[The Quiet One]]: Tovera, Adele Mundy's aide. Subverted in that she's a tiny female. So self-effacing that in ''Lt. Leary, Commanding'', police responding to murderous violence at a society garden party ignore her, despite the fact that she's holding a sub-machine gun. Deadlier than her mistress, the [[Badass Bookworm]]. ''Much'' deadlier.
* Occasionally drops [[Shout-Out
▲* [[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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