David Drake

You can get David Drake's books in many retailers, like Amazon, in either Hardcover, Paperback or Kindle versions.

The best place to start is the Hammer's Slammers series, the earliest of David Drake's multi-book series: it opens with Hammer's Slammers (1979) and runs to 8 books across 1979–2002, ending with Paying the Piper (2002). David Drake's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

David Drake has 264 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1975 and 2026. 189 of them belong to 27 named series — the largest being the Heroes in Hell series with 26 books — and 75 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. David Drake's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Hammer's Slammers (1979–2002, 8 books), Tom Kelly (1983–1987, 2 books) and Hammerverse (1984–1994, 3 books), plus 22 more.

This guide splits David Drake's 264 books into 27 named series and 75 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Heroes in Hell (26 books, 1986–2024); Lt. Leary / RCN (14 books, 1998–2019); Raj Whitehall/The General (10 books, 1991–2014); Hammer's Slammers (8 books, 1979–2002); Belisarius (6 books, 1998–2006), plus 22 further series.