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{{quote|"''The use of force is '''always''' an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.''"|'''David Drake'''}}

 

 

[http://www.david-drake.com/ David Drake] is the author of several sci-fi series, and has a major fantasy series, ''[[The Lord of the Isles]]'' which finished in late 2008 with ''The Gods Return''. Has numerous other works.

* [[The General]], with S.M. Stirling

* [[Belisarius Series]] with Eric Flint

*** the Leary/Mundy (after the main characters) series

*** the ''Lt. Leary, Commanding'' (after the title of the second book) series.

** Author's note from ''The Way to Glory'', third book in the series: "The general political background of the RCN series is that of Europe in the mid-eighteenth century, with admixtures of late-Republican Rome. (There's a surprising degree of congruence between British and Roman society in those periods.)"

** In the same way that Honor Harrington is Hornblower/Nelson [[In Space]], the RCN books are Patrick O'Brian [[In Space]], with Daniel O'Leary in the role of Jack Aubrey and Adele Mundy as Stephen Maturin (only with her being the ship's comms officer rather than its surgeon). And a right deadly comms officer she is, too.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Tovera, Adele Mundy's aide. Subverted in that she's a tiny female. So self-effacing she's ignored by police responding to murderous violence at a society garden party in ''Lt. Leary, Commanding'', despite the fact that she's holding a sub-machine gun. Deadlier than her mistress, the [[Badass Bookworm]]. ''Much'' deadlier.

* Occasionally drops [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to modern culture into his work. A punning one was in ''The Sharp End'' when a ship from the Marvelan Confederacy was known as the ''[[Silver Surfer|Argent Server]]''.

 

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