Series
Hammer's Slammers
David Drake & Larry Correia · 7 novels · 7 novellas · 10 novelettes · 5 short stories · 6 collections · 1974–2015
Hammer's Slammers follows an armored mercenary tank regiment, originally raised by the government of Friesland to crush a colonial rebellion, that goes on to sell its services across a scattering of future worlds under the hard-nosed Colonel Alois Hammer. David Drake, drawing directly on his own Vietnam-era service with the 11th Armored Cavalry, writes the unit's campaigns with a deliberately unglamorous, close-to-the-ground feel, treating mercenary war as dirty business rather than adventure. The series runs across many novels and story collections rather than one continuous arc.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Complete Hammer's Slammers(1 work)
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
Map
Hammer's Slammers at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s8
- 1980s9
- 1990s8
- 2000s8
- 2010s2
Shape
7 novels · 7 novellas · 10 novelettes · 5 short stories · 6 collections
2 authors
reads like:science fictionwarother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 93% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book28 of 35 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Counting the Costdarkest
- The Voyagebrightest
- At Any Pricecalmest
- Cultural Conflictmost intense