It occurs to me that the couple of times I met Drake, when he was joking around with Dan Breen at the Second F and whatnot, he was probably in a much mellower state of mind than the average.
As far as his de-recommendation of the Slammers stories, that's kind of interesting, because in the darker corners of his catalog it gets much, much worse. I just read the three Reaches novels, which apparently started out as light space opera (they're kinda the precursors to the RCN series) and eventually became a series of stories about four folks who go off to war in space and how two of them nearly destroy their own souls one horribly graphic boarding action at a time. Second one contains many scenes of what amounts to death by chainsaw.
I was actually just today reading Balefires, a short-story collection that presents a sort of cross-section of all the different genres he does. (Including the very first story he sold, which is...iffy. He got better fast, though.) Has a great fantasy/horror short called "The Barrow Troll" in it that I think won him a few awards.
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Date: 2010-04-22 05:00 am (UTC)From:As far as his de-recommendation of the Slammers stories, that's kind of interesting, because in the darker corners of his catalog it gets much, much worse. I just read the three Reaches novels, which apparently started out as light space opera (they're kinda the precursors to the RCN series) and eventually became a series of stories about four folks who go off to war in space and how two of them nearly destroy their own souls one horribly graphic boarding action at a time. Second one contains many scenes of what amounts to death by chainsaw.
I was actually just today reading Balefires, a short-story collection that presents a sort of cross-section of all the different genres he does. (Including the very first story he sold, which is...iffy. He got better fast, though.) Has a great fantasy/horror short called "The Barrow Troll" in it that I think won him a few awards.