David Drake bibliography

Novels (series)

ARC Riders

• ARC Riders
• The Fourth Rome

Belisarius series

• An Oblique Approach
• In the Heart of Darkness
• Destiny's Shield
• Fortune's Stroke
• The Tide of Victory
• ''The Dance of Time''

  The Books of the Elements

1. The Legions of Fire
2. Out of the Waters
3. Monsters of the Earth
4. ''Air and Darkness''

   Car Warriors

• The Square Deal, nominally set in Steve Jackson Games's Car Wars universe.

  Citizen

• Into the Hinterlands
• ''Into the Maelstrom''

  Crisis of Empire series

• An Honorable Defense —with Thomas T. Thomas
• Cluster Command —with William C. Dietz
• The War Machine —with Roger MacBride Allen
• Crown of Empire —with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  The General series

• The Forge
• The Hammer
• * Warlord —Omnibus edition
• * Hope Reborn —Omnibus edition
• The Anvil
• The Steel
• * Hope Rearmed -Omnibus edition
• The Sword
• * Conqueror —Omnibus edition

• The Chosen

• The Reformer
• The Tyrant —written by Eric Flint
• * Hope Reformed –Omnibus edition

• The Heretic —written by Tony Daniel
• ''The Savior''

  Hammer's Slammers

• Hammer's Slammers
• Cross the Stars
• At Any Price
• Counting the Cost
• Rolling Hot
• The Warrior
• The Sharp End
• The Voyage
• The Tank Lords —Includes Under the Hammer, Rolling Hot, Night March, Code-Name Feirefitz & The Tank Lords.
• Paying the Piper
• The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 —Omnibus edition; includes all the short stories.
• The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2 —Omnibus edition; includes At Any Price, Counting the Cost, Rolling Hot, The Warrior
• The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 —Omnibus edition; includes The Sharp End, Paying the Piper, ''The Darkness''

  The Harriers

• The Noble Savages, novella in the Harriers shared world setting created by Gordon R. Dickson; first published in the anthology Blood and War edited by Dickson, reprinted in Drake's collection ''All the Way to the Gallows''

  Heroes in Hell

• Explorers in Hell —with Janet Morris

  Lord of the Isles

1. Lord of the Isles
2. Queen of Demons
3. Servant of the Dragon
4. Mistress of the Catacombs
5. Goddess of the Ice Realm
6. Master of the Cauldron

1. The Fortress of Glass
2. The Mirror of Worlds
3. ''The Gods Return''

   Northworld

• Northworld
• Vengeance
• Justice
• * Northworld Trilogy —Omnibus edition

  RCN series

Reaches

1. Igniting the Reaches
2. Through the Breach
3. Fireships

• The Reaches —Omnibus edition

  Time of Heroes

1. The Spark
2. The Storm
3. ''The Serpent''

   Thieves' World

• ''Dagger''

  The Tom Kelly novels

1. Skyripper
2. ''Fortress''

   Venus series

• Surface Action
• The Jungle
• * Seas of Venus —Omnibus edition

  Novels (non-series)

• The Dragon Lord
• The Forlorn Hope
• Birds of Prey
• Killer —with Karl Edward Wagner
• Active Measures —with Janet Morris
• Ranks of Bronze
• Bridgehead
• Kill Ratio —with Janet Morris
• The Sea Hag, originally marketed as the first novel of The World of Crystal Walls but there will be no further entries in this "series"
• Target —with Janet Morris
• The Undesired Princess & The Enchanted Bunny, anthology containing Drake's novella The Enchanted Bunny and the unrelated short novel The Undesired Princess by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Hunter Returns —based on Jim Kjelgaard's Fire-Hunter, for his estate
• Starliner
• Enemy of My Enemy —with Ben Ohlander
• Redliners
• ''Patriots''

  Short fiction

Collections

• Time Safari, collects three Henry Vickers stories
• From the Heart of Darkness
• Lacey and His Friends, collects all three stories about Jed Lacey as well as the two unconnected time travel stories "Travellers" and "Time Safari"
• Vettius and His Friends, collects all stories about Dama & Vettius as well as other historical fantasy stories
• Old Nathan, collects all five stories about the eponymous Old Nathan; the entire collection is also included in the Baen anthology Mountain Magic
• The Military Dimension
• Tyrannosaur, collects three Henry Vickers stories
• The Military Dimension Mark II
• All the Way to the Gallows
• Grimmer Than Hell
• Other Times Than Peace
• Night & Demons
• Dinosaurs & a Dirigible, collection of five time travel stories, all four Henry Vickers stories and the unrelated story "Travellers"

  Anthologies edited

• Armageddon —with Billie Sue Mosiman
• A Century of Horror 1970–1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade —with Martin H. Greenberg
• Space Gladiators
• A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling —with Sandra Miesel
• Heads to the Storm —with Sandra Miesel
• Space Infantry —with Martin H. Greenberg
• The Eternal City
• Space Dreadnoughts —with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
• Dogs of War
• Foreign Legions —with Eric Flint and David Weber
• The World Turned Upside Down —with Eric Flint and Jim Baen

  Starhunters

• Men Hunting Things
• Things Hunting Men
• Bluebloods

Fleet

1. The Fleet
2. Counterattack
3. Breakthrough
4. Sworn Allies
5. Total War
6. ''Crisis''

   Battlestation

• Battlestation
• The Vanguard
• Battlestations —omnibus compendium of Battlestation and ''The Vanguard''

  Short stories

• "Denkirch" in Travellers by Night, Balefires
• "Lord of the Depths" in Dark Things
• "Arclight" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• "Contact!" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Body Armor: 2000
• "Under the Hammer" in Galaxy Science Fiction, Hammer's Slammers
• "The Butcher's Bill" in Galaxy Science Fiction, Combat SF, Hammer's Slammers, Combat SF, Hammer's Slammers
• "Something Had to Be Done" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV, From the Heart of Darkness, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
• "Ranks of Bronze" in Galaxy Science Fiction, There Will Be War, Vettius and His Friends
• "But Loyal to His Own" in Galaxy Science Fiction, Hammer's Slammers
• "Awakening" in Nameless Places
• "Children of the Forest" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V, From the Heart of Darkness, Balefires
• "Blood Debt" in The 4th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories, From the Heart of Darkness
• "Firefight" in Frights, From the Heart of Darkness
• "The Hunting Ground" in Superhorror, From the Heart of Darkness
• "Nation Without Walls" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
• "The Last Battalion" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
• "The Barrow Troll" in Savage Heroes, Whispers, The World Fantasy Awards Volume Two, From the Heart of Darkness, Vettius and His Friends, Balefires
• "Smokie Joe" in More Devil's Kisses, Terrors, From the Heart of Darkness, Balefires
• "Best of Luck" in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI, From the Heart of Darkness
• "Caught in the Crossfire" in Chrysalis 2, Hammer's Slammers, Caught in the Crossfire
• "Cultural Conflict" in Destinies, Hammer's Slammers
• "The Predators" in Destinies
• "Hangman" in Hammer's Slammers, Supertanks
• "The Red Leer" in Whispers II, From the Heart of Darkness, Balefires
• "Standing Down" in Hammer's Slammers
• "Underground" in Destinies
• "Men Like Us" in Omni, From the Heart of Darkness
• "The Automatic Rifleman" in Destinies, From the Heart of Darkness
• "Goddess" in Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, Sanctuary
• "Than Curse the Darkness" in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, From the Heart of Darkness, Balefires
• "Travellers" in Destinies
• "King Crocodile" in Whispers III, Vettius and His Friends
• "The Dancer in the Flames" in From the Heart of Darkness, Whispers IV
• "Votary" in The Face of Chaos
• "Out of Africa" in From the Heart of Darkness, Horrorstory: Volume 4
• "Code-name Feirefitz" in Men of War
• The Guardroom in Afterwar
• The Great Beer Shortage with Janet Morris in Far Frontiers Vol. VI
• "The Tank Lords" in Far Frontiers Vol. VI, Hammer's Slammers, Call to Battle
• "The Hand of Providence" in Heroes in Hell
• "'Cause I Served My Time in Hell" in Rebels in Hell
• "The Interrogation Team" in Warrior, Caught in the Crossfire
• "The Fool" in Whispers VI
• "Bargain" in Masters in Hell
• "Learning Curve" in Angels in Hell
• "Liberty Port" in Alien Stars IV: Freelancers
• "Springs Eternal" in Crusaders in Hell
• "Wisdom" in Crusaders in Hell
• "Rescue Mission" in The Fleet
• "Safe to Sea" in Spacefighters
• "When the Devil Drives" in The Fleet: Counterattack
• "Dreams in Amber" in Vettius and His Friends
• "Killer" with Karl Edward Wagner in Vettius and His Friends
• "Exile" in Prophets in Hell
• "Elfin Pipes of Northworld" in The New York Review of Science Fiction
• "Looking Forward: Excerpt from Northworld: Justice" in Amazing Stories
• "Looking Forward: Excerpt from The Sharp End" in Amazing Stories
• "Cannibal Plants From Heck" in Alien Pregnant By Elvis
• "Airborne All the Way!" in Magic, the Gathering: Tapestries
• "To Bring the Light" in Locus
• "The Waiting Bullet" in Locus
• "A Grand Tour" in More than Honor
• "The Immovable Object" in Caught in the Crossfire
• "With the Sword He Must Be Slain" in Armageddon
• "A Very Offensive Weapon" in All the Way to the Gallows
• "The Tradesmen" in Grimmer Than Hell
• "A Death in Peacetime" in The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1
• "Dragon, the Book" in Catfantastic V

• "The False Prophet", first published in
• "Black Iron", first published in Nameless Places
• "The Mantichore", first published in Swords Against Darkness III
• "The Shortest Way", first published in Whispers #3
• "From the Dark Waters", first published in Waves of Terror: Weird Stories About the Sea
• "Nemesis Place", first published in Fantastic
• "Dragons' Teeth", first published in Midnight Sun

• "Time Safari", first published in Destinies
• "Calibration Run", first published in Time Safari
• "Boundary Layer", first published in Time Safari
• "King Tyrant Lizard", first published in Tyrannosaur

• "A Grand Tour"