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Author: David Drake Author Record # 277 Legal Name: Drake, David Allen Birthplace: Dubuque, Iowa, USA Birthdate: 24 September 1945 Language: English Webpages: david-drake.com, SFE, Wikipedia-EN Used These Alternate Names: ディヴィッド・ドレイク?Deividdo Doreiku , デイヴィッド・ドレイク?Deividdo Doreiku , Dave Drake, David A. Drake, Дэвид Дрейк?Devid Dreyk Author Tags: military sf (33), science fiction (16), fantasy (15), space opera (14), time travel (3), shared universe (2), mercenaries (2), Arthurian fantasy (1), mystery (1), space station (1), Bioengineered Virus (1), moonbase (1), siblings (1), fate (1), magic (1), quest (1), rescue (1), mercenary (1), into-board game (1), Rudyard Kipling (1) and 23 additional tags. View all tags for David Drake

• ARC Riders
  • 1 ARC Riders (1995) with Janet Morris
  • 2 The Fourth Rome (1996) with Janet Morris
  
  
• Belisarius
  • 1 An Oblique Approach (1998) with Eric Flint
  • 2 In the Heart of Darkness (1998) with Eric Flint
  • 3 Destiny's Shield (1999) with Eric Flint
  • 4 Fortune's Stroke (2000) with Eric Flint
  • 5 The Tide of Victory (2001) with Eric Flint
  • 6 The Dance of Time (2006) with Eric Flint
  • Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn (2008) [O/1,2] with Eric Flint
  • Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide (2009) [O/3,4] with Eric Flint
  • Belisarius III: The Flames of Sunset (2009) [O/5,6] with Eric Flint
  
  
• Car Warriors
  • 1 The Square Deal (1992)
  
  
• Crisis of Empire
  • 1 An Honorable Defense (1988) with Thomas T. Thomas
  • 2 Cluster Command (1989) with William C. Dietz [only as by W. C. Dietz and David Drake]
  • 3 The War Machine (1989) with Roger MacBride Allen
  
  
• Fire-Hunter
  • The Hunter Returns (1991) with Jim Kjelgaard
  
  
• General / Raj Whitehall
  • 1 The Forge (1991) with S. M. Stirling
  • 2 The Hammer (1992) with S. M. Stirling
  • 3 The Anvil (1993) with S. M. Stirling
  • 4 The Steel (1993) with S. M. Stirling
  • 5 The Sword (1995) with S. M. Stirling
  • 6 The Chosen (1996) with S. M. Stirling
  • 7 The Reformer (1999) with S. M. Stirling
  • 8 The Tyrant (2002) with Eric Flint
  • 9 The Heretic (2013) with Tony Daniel
  • 10 The Savior (2014) with Tony Daniel
  • The Sword (Excerpt) (1995) [SF] with S. M. Stirling
  • Conqueror (2003) [O/3,4,5] with S. M. Stirling
  • Warlord (2003) [O/1,2] with S. M. Stirling also appeared as:
    • Variant: Hope Reborn (2013) [O]
  • The Heretic (excerpt) (2013) [SF] with Tony Daniel
  • Hope Rearmed (2014) [O/3,4] with S. M. Stirling
  • Hope Renewed (2014) [O/5,6] with S. M. Stirling
  • Hope Reformed (2014) [O/7,8] with Eric Flint and S. M. Stirling
  
  
• Hammer's Slammers
  • 1 Hammer's Slammers (1979) [C]
  • 2 At Any Price (1985) [C]
  • 3 Counting the Cost (1987)
  • 4 Rolling Hot (1989)
  • 5 The Warrior (1991)
  • 6 The Sharp End (1993)
  • 7 Paying the Piper (2002) [C]
  • Under the Hammer (1974) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Le baptême du feu [French] (1976)
  • The Butcher's Bill (1974) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      殲滅の代償^?せんめつのだいしょう
      Senmetsu no Daishou
      Senmetsu no Daishō
      [Japanese] (2021) [as by
      デイヴィッド・ドレイク^?Deividdo Doreiku
      ]
  • But Loyal to His Own (1975) [SF]
  • Caught in the Crossfire (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Im Kreuzfeuer gefangen [German] (1981)
  • Cultural Conflict (1979) [SF]
  • Backdrop to Chaos (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: Backdrop to Chaos (1984)
  • Hangman (1979) [SF]
  • Powerguns (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: Powerguns (1984)
  • Standing Down (1979) [SF]
  • Supertanks (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: Supertanks (1984)
  • Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer's Regiment (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer's Regiment (1984)
  • The Bonding Authority (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: The Bonding Authority (1984)
  • The Church of the Lord's Universe (1979) [ES] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: The Church of the Lord's Universe (1984)
  • Code-Name Feirefitz (1984) [SF]
  • Cross the Stars (1984)
  • At Any Price (1985)
  • The Interrogation Team (1985) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Interlude: The Interrogation Team (1985)
  • The Tank Lords (1986) [SF]
  • Liberty Port (1987) [SF]
  • The Voyage (1994)
  • Night March (1997) [SF]
  • The Tank Lords (1997) [C]
  • The Butcher's Bill (1998) [C]
  • The Immovable Object (1998) [SF]
  • The Irresistible Force (1998) [SF]
  • Caught in the Crossfire (1998) [O]
  • Choosing Sides (2002) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Una questione di scelta [Italian] (2009)
  • Neck or Nothing (2002) [SF]
  • The Political Process (2002) [SF]
  • A Death in Peacetime (2005) [SF]
  • The Day of Glory (2006) [SF]
  • The Darkness (2006) [SF]
  • At Any Price / Rolling Hot (2011) [O/2,4]
  • Counting the Cost / The Warrior (2011) [O/3,5]
  • Voyage Across the Stars (2012) [O/2,8]
  • The Tank Lords, Second Edition (2012) [C]
  • Save What You Can (2015) [SF]
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers
    • 1 The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (2006) [C]
    • 2 The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2 (2007) [O]
    • 3 The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 (2007) [O]
  
  
• Heroes in Hell
  • 12 Explorers in Hell (1989) with Janet Morris
  
  
• Keeps
  • Surface Action (1990)
  • The Jungle / Clash by Night (1991) [O] with Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore only appeared as:
    • Variant: The Jungle with Clash by Night (1991) [O] [as by David Drake and Henry Kuttner]
  • The Jungle (1991)
  • Seas of Venus (2002) [O/1,2]
  
  
• Lord of the Isles
  • 1 Lord of the Isles (1997) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Gefährten des Sturms [German] (1998)
    • Translation: Der Thron von Malkar [German] (1999)
  • 2 Queen of Demons (1998) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Die Erben des Carus [German] (1999)
  • 3 Servant of the Dragon (1999) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Die Diener des Drachen [German] (2000)
  • 4 Mistress of the Catacombs (2001)
  • 5 Goddess of the Ice Realm (2003)
  • 6 Master of the Cauldron (2004)
  • The Elf House (2004) [SF]
  • The Lord of Isles Series (2018) [O/1-6]
  • The Crown of the Isles Trilogy
    • 7 The Fortress of Glass (2006)
    • 8 The Mirror of Worlds (2007)
    • 9 The Gods Return (2008)
  
  
• Northworld
  • 1 Northworld (1990)
  • 2 Vengeance (1991)
  • 3 Justice (1992)
  • Northworld Trilogy (1999) [O/1,2,3]
  
  
• RCN
  • 1 With the Lightnings (1998)
  • 2 Lt. Leary, Commanding (2000)
  • 3 The Far Side of the Stars (2003)
  • 4 The Way to Glory (2005)
  • 5 Some Golden Harbor (2006)
  • 6 When the Tide Rises (2008)
  • 7 In the Stormy Red Sky (2009)
  • 8 What Distant Deeps (2010)
  • 9 The Road of Danger (2012)
  • 10 The Sea Without a Shore (2014)
  • 11 Death's Bright Day (2016)
  • 12 Though Hell Should Bar the Way (2018)
  • 13 To Clear Away the Shadows (2019)
  • Cadet Cruise (2016) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Kadétportya [Hungarian] (2021)
  • The Midshipman (2018) [SF]
  
  
• Ranks of Bronze
  • Ranks of Bronze (1975) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Les rangs de bronze [French] (1977)
    • Translation: Redovi bronce [Croatian] (1987)
  • Ranks of Bronze (1986)
  • Foreign Legions (2001) [A]
  • Lambs to the Slaughter (2001) [SF]
  
  
• Reaches
  • 1 Igniting the Reaches (1994)
  • 2 Through the Breach (1995)
  • 3 Fireships (1996)
  • The Reaches (2004) [O/1,2,3]
  
  
• The Books of the Elements
  • 1 The Legions of Fire (2010)
  • 2 Out of the Waters (2011)
  • 3 Monsters of the Earth (2013)
  • 4 Air and Darkness (2015)
  
  
• The Citizen
  • 1 Into the Hinterlands (2011) with John Lambshead
  • 2 Into the Maelstrom (2015) with John Lambshead
  
  
• The Dragon Lord
  • The Dragon Lord (1979)
  
  
• Thieves' World
  • Goddess (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Göttin [German] (1987)
    • Translation: Gudinnan [Swedish] (1989)
    • Translation:
      Богиня^?Boginya
      [Russian] (1995) [as by
      Дэвид Дрейк^?Devid Dreyk
      ]
  • Votary (1983) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Die Suche [German] (1988)
  • Inheritor (1987) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Im Herzen des Lichts [German] (1992)
  • Dagger (1988) also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      A tőr^?A tor
      A tooer
      [Hungarian] (1998)
  
  
• Time Safari / Henry Vickers
  • 1 Calibration Run (1982) [SF]
  • 2 Time Safari (1981) [SF]
  • 3 Boundary Layer (1982) [SF]
  • 4 King Tyrant Lizard (1993) [SF]
  • Time Safari (1982) [C]
  • Tyrannosaur (1993) [C]
  • Dinosaurs & a Dirigible (2014) [C]
  
  
• Time of Heroes
  • 1 The Spark (2017)
  • 2 The Storm (2019)
  • 3 The Serpent (2021)
  
  
• Tom Kelly
  • 1 Skyripper (1983)
  • 2 Fortress (1987)
  • Loose Cannon (2011) [O/1,2]
  
  
• World of Crystal Walls
  • 1 The Sea Hag (1988)

• The Forlorn Hope (1984)
• Birds of Prey (1984)
• Active Measures (1985) with Janet Morris
• Killer (1985) with Karl Edward Wagner also appeared as:
  • Translation: Killer [German] (2020)
• Bridgehead (1986)
• Kill Ratio (1987) with Janet Morris
• Target (1989) with Janet Morris
• Starliner (1992)
• Enemy of My Enemy: Terra Nova (1995) with Ben Ohlander
• Redliners (1996)
• Patriots (1996)
• Redliners, Second Edition (2013)

• From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
• Lacey and His Friends (1986)
• Vettius and His Friends (1989)
• The Military Dimension (1991)
• Old Nathan (1991)
• The Military Dimension: Mark II (1995)
• All the Way to the Gallows (1996)
• Grimmer Than Hell (2003)
• Other Times Than Peace (2006)
• Balefires (2007)
• Night & Demons (2012)

• The Undesired Princess & The Enchanted Bunny (1990) [O] with L. Sprague de Camp
• Mountain Magic (Kuttner version) (2004) [O] with Eric Flint and Henry Kuttner and Ryk E. Spoor
• Mountain Magic (Wellman version) (2004) [O] with Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor and Manly Wade Wellman

• Honor Harrington Universe
  • 2 Worlds of Honor Anthologies
    • 1 More Than Honor (1998) with S. M. Stirling and David Weber also appeared as:
      • Translation: Die Siedler von Sphinx [German] (2001)
      • Translation: Autour d'Honor [French] (2013)
  • Honor Harrington Universe Short Fiction
    • A Grand Tour (1998) [SF] also appeared as:
      • Translation: Eine Bildungsreise [German] (2001)
      • Translation: La croisière héroïque [French] (2013)
  
  
• Starhunters
  • 1 Men Hunting Things (1988)
  • 2 Things Hunting Men (1988)
  • 3 Bluebloods (1990)
  
  
• The Fleet Universe
  • 1 The Fleet
    • 1 The Fleet (1988) with Bill Fawcett
    • 2 Counterattack (1988) with Bill Fawcett
    • 3 Breakthrough (1989) with Bill Fawcett
    • 4 Sworn Allies (1990) with Bill Fawcett
    • 5 Total War (1990) with Bill Fawcett
    • 6 Crisis (1991) with Bill Fawcett
    • Rescue Mission (1988) [SF]
    • When the Devil Drives (1988) [SF]
    • Team Effort (1989) [SF]
    • The Murder of Halley's Comet (1989) [SF] with Larry Niven
    • Mom and the Kids (1990) [SF] with Larry Niven
    • The End (1990) [SF]
    • Smash and Grab (1990) [SF]
    • Mission Accomplished (1991) [SF]
  • 2 Battlestation
    • 1 Battlestation (1992) with Bill Fawcett
    • 2 Vanguard (1993) with Bill Fawcett
    • Facing the Enemy (1992) [SF]
    • Failure Mode (1993) [SF]
    • Battlestations (2011) [O/1,2] with Bill Fawcett

• Space Gladiators (1989) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh [only as by David Drake and Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh]
• A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989) with Sandra Miesel
• Heads to the Storm (1989) with Sandra Miesel
• Space Infantry (1989) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh [only as by David Drake and Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh]
• Space Dreadnoughts (1990) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
• The Eternal City (1990) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
• A Century of Horror 1970-1979 (1996) with Martin H. Greenberg
• Lest Darkness Fall / To Bring the Light (1996) with L. Sprague de Camp also appeared as:
  • Translation: L'abisso del passato Alba eterna [Italian] (1999)
• Armageddon (1998) with Martin H. Greenberg and Billie Sue Mosiman
• Dogs of War (2002)
• The World Turned Upside Down (2005) with Jim Baen and Eric Flint

• Codex (2003)
• Up from Hell (2016)

• Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future (1984) with Marianne Gingrich and Newt Gingrich

• Bolo
  • As Our Strength Lessens (1993)
  
  
• Cormac Mac Art
  • The Land Toward Sunset (1995)
  
  
• Cthulhu Mythos
  • 3 Cthulhu Mythos short fiction
    • Than Curse the Darkness (1980) also appeared as:
      • Translation:
        Plutôt que de maudire les ténèbres^?Plutot que de maudire les tenebres
        [French] (1991)
  
  
• Jed Lacey
  • 1 Nation Without Walls (1977)
  • 2 The Predators (1979)
  • 3 Underground (1980)
  
  
• Lest Darkness Fall
  • To Bring the Light (1996) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Alba Eterna [Italian] (1999)
  
  
• Magic: The Gathering
  • Airborne All the Way! (1995)
  
  
• The Far Stars War
  • Band of Brothers (1990) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Camarazii [Romanian] (1995)
  
  
• The Harriers
  • The Noble Savages (1993)

• Denkirch (1967)
• Lord of the Depths (1971)
• Arclight (1973)
• The Song of the Bone (1973)
• Killer (1974) with Karl Edward Wagner also appeared as:
  • Variant: Killer (1974) [as by David A. Drake and Karl Edward Wagner]
  • Translation: Ubojica [Croatian] (1989)
• The Shortest Way (1974)
• Contact! (1974) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Bliski susret [Croatian] (1988)
• Awakening (1975) [also as by David A. Drake]
• Black Iron (1975)
• Dragons' Teeth (1975) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Dragon's Teeth (1975)
  • Translation: Drachenzähne [German] (1985)
• The Master of Demons (1975)
• Something Had to Be Done (1975) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Es mußte etwas getan werden [German] (1979)
  • Translation:
    最後の手段^?さいごのしゅだん
    Saigo no Shudan
    [Japanese] (1980) [as by
    ディヴィッド・ドレイク^?Deividdo Doreiku
    ]
  • Translation: Il fallait bien faire quelque chose [French] (1983)
  • Translation: Il fallait faire quelque chose [French] (1986)
• The Barrow Troll (1975) also appeared as:
  • Translation: De trol van de grafheuvel [Dutch] (1982)
• From the Dark Waters (1976) [also as by David A. Drake]
• The Hunting Ground (1976) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Hunting Ground (2016)
• Blood Debt (1976)
• Firefight (1976) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Battaglia di fuoco [Italian] (1981)
• Children of the Forest (1976)
• Smokie Joe (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Smokiejoe (2016)
• The Last Battalion (1977)
• The Mantichore (1978)
• Nemesis Place (1978)
• Best of Luck (1978)
• The Red Leer (1979)
• Men Like Us (1980)
• The Automatic Rifleman (1980)
• Travellers (1981)
• King Crocodile (1981) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Krokotiilikuningas [Finnish] (1992)
• The Dancer in the Flames (1982)
• Out of Africa (1983) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Aus Afrika [German] (1986)
• Killer (excerpt) (1984) with Karl Edward Wagner
• Dreams in Amber (1985)
• The Guardroom (1985)
• Active Measures (excerpt) (1985) with Janet Morris
• Active Measures (excerpt) (1985) with Janet Morris
• The Bond (1985)
• The Hand of Providence (1986)
• Ranks of Bronze (excerpt) (1986)
• 'Cause I Served My Time in Hell (1986)
• Ranks of Bronze (excerpt) (1986)
• The Great Beer Shortage (1986) with Janet Morris
• Hog (1987)
• The Fool (1987)
• Springs Eternal (1987)
• The Bull (1987)
• Learning Curve (1987)
• Bargain (1987)
• Counting the Cost (excerpt) (1988)
• Safe to Sea (1988)
• Wisdom (1988)
• The False Prophet (1989)
• Exile (1989)
• The End of the Hunt (1989)
• The Enchanted Bunny (1990)
• Elfin Pipes of Northworld (1990)
• The Way We Die (1991)
• The Box (1991)
• The Bullhead (1991) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Bullhead (1992)
• The Gold (1991)
• The Warrior (excerpt) (1991)
• Northworld: Justice (excerpt) (1992)
• The Sharp End (excerpt) (1993)
• Cannibal Plants from Heck (1994)
• A Very Offensive Weapon (1995)
• The Waiting Bullet (1997)
• With the Sword He Must Be Slain (1998)
• Servant of the Dragon (excerpt) (1999)
• Dragon, The Book (1999)
• Fortune's Stroke (excerpt) (2000) with Eric Flint
• The Tradesmen (2000)
• Coming up Against It (2003)
• Codex (2003)
• The Far Side of the Stars (excerpt) (2003)
• A Land of Romance (2005)
• When the Tide Rises (excerpt) (2008)
• The Gods Return (excerpt) (2008)
• In the Stormy Red Sky (excerpt) (2009)
• What Distant Deeps (excerpt) (2010)
• The Legions of Fire (excerpt) (2010)
• Out of the Waters (excerpt) (2011)
• The Road of Danger (excerpt) (2012)
• The Road to Danger (excerpt) (2012)
• The Virgin of Hertogenbosch (2013)
• Bedding (2013)
• The Sea Without a Shore (excerpt) (2014)
• Into the Mealstrom (excerpt) (2015) with John Lambshead
• The Great Wizard, Cabbage (2015)
• Up from Hell (2016)
• Superweapon (2018)
• The Savage (2019)
• The Price (2020)
• Uncovered Data (2022)
• Airborne: The Next Mission (2023)

• No Limit on Hippogrifs (1968)

• Gallery (Science Fiction Age)
  • Hickmania (1993)
  
  
• Read This
  • Read This (Or Something Like It) (NYRSF, July 2002) (2002)

• Preface (The Compleat Enchanter) (1975)
• The World Fantasy Convention (1975)
• Scholars & Stirrips (1978)
• The Sixty-Five Million Years: Afterword (1982)
• The New King (Shiel's Final Novel): An Appreciation (1983) [only as by David A. Drake]
• Letter (Crypt of Cthulhu, Roodmas 1983) (1983)
• untitled (The Faces of Science Fiction) (1984)
• Letter (Fantasy Review, December 1984) (1984)
• Letter (Fantasy Review, July 1985) (1985) [only as by Dave Drake]
• The Fifteen-Years' Afterword (1985) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Letter, February 6, 1987 (1987) [only as by David A. Drake]
• Introduction (Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors) (1987)
• Afterword to Counting the Cost: How They Got That Way (1987) [also as by Dave Drake]
• Foreword: Manly in the Mountains (1988)
• Afterword (Slammers Down!: In the World of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers) (1988)
• It's a Lot Like War (Men Hunting Things excerpt) (1988)
• Introduction (The Mercenary) (1988)
• Introduction: It's a Lot Like War (1988)
• A Brief Introduction to Karl Edward Wagner (1989)
• Let the Games Begin... (1989)
• Source Materials: By Way of Introduction (1989)
• Preface (The Complete Compleat Enchanter) (1989)
• Introduction: An Interview with Mark Twain (1989)
• Introduction: The Long Watch (1989)
• Soldiers' Stories (Introduction to Under the Hammer) (1989)
• Letter (Short Form, October 1989) (1989)
• Introduction (The Barrow Troll) (1989)
• Introduction: Heroes (1989)
• Introduction: A Quick Look at Battle Fleets (Space Dreadnoughts) (1990)
• Introduction: The Creation of Rome (The Eternal City) (1990)
• A Comment from a Package (1990)
• Introduction: Skeletons at the Feast (Phantom Regiments) (1990)
• Author's Note (Northworld) (1990)
• Letter (Aboriginal, November-December 1990) (1990) [only as by David A. Drake]
• Letter (Locus #362) (1991) [only as by David A. Drake]
• Afterword (Vengeance) (1991)
• Letter (Locus #366) (1991)
• Welcome to the War Zone (1991)
• Author's Note (The Jungle) (1991)
• A Sense of Place (1992)
• Author's Note (Justice) (1992)
• Introduction (Dorsai!) (1993)
• Author's Afterword: Drake's Drake (Igniting the Reaches) (1994)
• Author's Note (The Voyage) (1994)
• Afterword: Drake's Drake (1994)
• Afterword: One War Later (The Military Dimension: Mark II) (1995)
• Letter (Foundation #63) (1995) [only as by David A. Drake]
• Welcome to the War Zone (The Military Dimension: Mark II) (1995)
• Letter (Ansible 90) (1995)
• Letter (NYRSF, February 1995) (1995)
• A Note on the Text (Cormac Mac Art) (1995)
• Introduction (Cormac Mac Art) (1995) only appeared as:
  • Variant: Introduction: Ancient History (1995) [as by Dave Drake]
• Thomas Lanier Williams, Protofan (1995)
• Intolerance (1995)
• Introduction: The Human Side (Kull) (1995)
• Forever Afterword (Forever After) (1995)
• Pig Picking (1996)
• Author's Notes (Fireships) (1996)
• At Seventeen (1996)
• Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester (1996)
• Author's Note: Truth, Heroism, and Other Confusing Subjects (1996)
• Letter (NYRSF, December 1996) (1996)
• Why Gallows Humor? (1996)
• A Note to the Reader (Lord of the Isles) (1997)
• Afterword: We Happy Few (The Tank Lords) (1997) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Foreword: We Happy Few (The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2) (1997)
• The Truth Insofar As I Know It (1997)
• Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia (1998) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Foreword: Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia (1998)
• Stolen Thunder (1998)
• Letter (NYRSF, May 1998) (1998)
• A Note on Weights and Measures (With the Lightnings) (1998)
• Mercenaries (Caught in the Crossfire) (1998)
• Author's Note (Queen of Demons) (1998)
• A Note on Solomon Kane (1998)
• Letter (Locus #454) (1998)
• Letter (NYRSF, January 1999) (1999)
• Trout in the Milk: A Cautionary Tale (1999)
• Letter (NYRSF, May 1999) (1999)
• Afterword: Where I Get My Ideas (Cross the Stars) (1999)
• Author's Note (Servant of the Dragon) (1999)
• A Note on Weight and Measures (2000)
• Author's Note (Lt. Leary, Commanding) (2000)
• Jim Baen (2000)
• L. Sprague de Camp: An Appreciation (2000)
• Author's Note (Mistress of the Catacombs) (2001)
• Introduction (Foreign Legions): Well It Happened This Way ... (2001)
• Extraordinary Diplomats (Retief!) (2002)
• Introduction: Costs and Benefits (2002)
• The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin: Afterword: Sometimes It All Just Works (2002)
• Afterword: How it All Came About (The Tyrant) (2002)
• Introduction (Dorsai Spirit) (2002)
• Manly's Stories (2002)
• A Background Note (2002)
• Introduction: Well It Happened This Way ... (2002)
• Introduction: Sea Stories (2002)
• The Real Jungle: Belize 2001 (2002)
• Afterword: Sometimes It All Just Works (The Cold Equations & Other Stories) (2003)
• Introduction: Coming Home By the Long Way (Grimmer Than Hell) (2003)
• Author's Note (Goddess of the Ice Realm) (2003)
• Author's Note (Codex) (2003)
• Author's Note (The Far Side of the Stars) (2003)
• Introduction to the Electronic Publication of John the Balladeer (2003)
• Orientation (The Drake Disk) (2003)
• Letter (NYRSF, November 2003) (2003)
• Introduction: The One That Got Away (2004)
• Notes on 'Niether Brute Nor Human' (2004)
• Accidentally and By the Back Door (2004)
• Author's Note (Master of the Caldron) (2004)
• My First Sale (2005)
• "The Hairless Ones Come": L. Sprague de Camp's First Story (2005)
• Author's Note (The Way To Glory) (2005) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Author's Note (The Way to Glory) (2005)
• Alien Landscape With Figures (2005)
• Afterword: Accidentally and by the Back Door (The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1) (2006)
• Author's Note (The Fortress of Glass) (2006)
• Jim Baen (Obituary) (2006)
• My Friend Barry (2006)
• What's for Sale (2006)
• Why I'm Here (2006)
• Introduction: A Range of Treatments (2006)
• Author's Note (Some Golden Harbor) (2006)
• Preface (Transgalactic) (2006) with Eric Flint
• Letter (NYRSF, October 2006) (2006)
• Afterword: What's for Sale (The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2) (2007)
• A Personal Note on Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
• Author's Note (The Mirror of Worlds) (2007)
• Letter (NYRSF, September 2007) (2007)
• A Note on Harry Bates (2007)
• Jim (2007)
• Musings on the Discovery of Pluto (2008)
• Broken Things (2008)
• Author's Note (When the Tide Rises) (2008) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Author's Note (When the Tide Rises) (2008)
• Orientation (The David Drake When the Tide Rises Disk) (2008) [only as by Dave Drake]
• On Cover Art (2008)
• A Short Appreciation of Jim Rigney (Robert Jordan) (2008) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Introduction: But Why on Earth Belisarius? (2008)
• Author's Note (The Gods Return) (2008)
• Surreal Splendor: Three Novels by Mark S. Geston (2009)
• A Belated Thank-You (2009)
• Not Long for This World (2009)
• Introduction: Three or Six Passages to India (2009)
• Author's Note (In the Stormy Red Sky) (2009)
• Acknowledgments (In the Stormy Red Sky) (2009)
• The Golden Age (2009)
• Introduction: Is That Really True? (2009)
• Letter (NYRSF, October 2009) (2009)
• A Note on King Kong (2010)
• Arthor's Note (The Legions of Fire) (2010)
• Manly Wade Wellman and the Stone Age: The Hok Stories (2010)
• Appreciation (The High Crusade) (2010)
• Author's Note (What Distant Deeps) (2010)
• Dr. Syn Revisited (2010)
• Letter (NYRSF, October 2010) (2010)
• Before Nineteen Eighty-Four: Thoughts on Orwell (2011)
• The Classical Background (2011)
• Manly and the Stone Age (2011)
• Letter (NYRSF, April 2011) (2011)
• Tom Kelly and Me (2011)
• Author's Note (Out of the Waters) (2011)
• Afterword (Assignment in Eternity) (2012)
• Introduction (Voyage Across the Stars) (2012)
• Arthor's Note (The Road of Danger) (2012)
• A Kind of Humor (2012) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Storytellers: A Guided Ramble into Sword and Sorcery Fiction (2012) [also as by Dave Drake]
• On The Arrogant History of White Ben, by Clemence Dane (2012) [only as by Dave Drake]
• The Roads to the RCN Series (2012) [only as by Dave Drake]
• About the Book You're Holding (2012)
• Manly Wade Wellman, Reporter (2013) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Karl Edward Wagner (2013)
• Ghosts of the Past (2013)
• Art, History, and Unplanned Side Effects (2013)
• Author's Note (The Road of Danger) (2013)
• A Look Into the Past (2014)
• Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! My Personal Look at Space Opera and Military SF (2015) [only as by Dave Drake]
• Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! (2015)
• Stephen Hickman, Me, and Art (2015)
• Unintended Consequences (2016)
• Three Snapshots (2016) [only as by Dave Drake]
• The Search for E.T. Bell, also known as John Taine (2016)
• Under the Sign of the Unicorn's Head: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series (2016) with Darrell Schweitzer
• Introduction (Redliners) (2016)
• Long, Long Ago: A Personal Reminiscence of the First World Fantasy Convention (2016)
• Paths Through Dark Woods (2017)
• Afterword (Starliner) (2017)
• A Map of the Territory (2017)
• Foreword: Paths Through Dark Woods (2017)
• Soldiers and the Civil Government (2017)
• Soldiers and Civil Government (2017)
• Author's Note (Though Hell Should Bar the Way) (2018)
• Author's Note (Though Hell Should Bar the Way) (2018)
• I.N.T.R.O.D.U.C.T.I.O.N.: Egregious: My Personal Response to C.H.U.D. (2018) [also as by Dave Drake]
• How It Was Back Then (2018)
• Approaching the Territory (2019)
• Author's Note (To Clear Away the Shadows) (2019)
• Author's Note (The Serpent) (2021)

• The Old Captain Goes Home (photo) (1986)

• From Evil's Pillow (1973) by Basil Copper
• Beneath the Moors (1975) by Brian Lumley
• The New King (1982) by M. P. Shiel
• The Year of Sex Olympics: Three TV Plays (2005) by Nigel Kneale
• The Books of the Wars (2009) by Mark S. Geston

• Instead of Killing: A Conversation with David Drake (2007) by Jeremy L. C. Jones
• Feature--David Drake--The Legions of Fire (2010) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
• Into the Hinterlands (2012) by Jeremy L. C. Jones (co-interviewed with John Lambshead)
• A Craftsman of No Small Skill: A Conversation with David Drake (2013) by Jeremy L. C. Jones
• The Galaxy's Edge Interview (Galaxy's Edge, Issue 33, July 2018) (2018) by Joy Ward
• Mentioned in Dispatches (2021) by John Gilbert