A collection of poems of all types, limerick, haiku, etc. Each one is funny, some are hysterical. The author knows libraries. Anyone who has every worked in a library will appreciate it.

This is the first book of the Poul Anderson series, "Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra" and it was published in the mid-sixties. I say this up front because the book, story and characters live outside the copyright date and achieve that timeless quality you expect from authurs like Asimov, Burroughs and of course Poul Anderson. Flandry is just an ensign when we meet him in this story and at first, he doesn't even feel like the staring character. As the story unfolds, we expect more and more from our young ensign until the fate of Terra and other worlds hang on his every decision. Don't get me wrong, he's not made Emporer by books end. Through and through, he is just an ensign who plays the cards that are dealt him. It is said that great events make great men and we see Ensign Flandry take on a captivating shape. I haven't read the next books in the series, but have high hopes for the Long Night of the Terran Empire.

Tightly written, expertly researched short stories. An excellent Cthulhu story set in the Belgian Congo. Karl Edmund Wagner's introduction is good, too.

This collection of related short stories is completely different in tone, topic, and style from anything else that David Drake has written. Nathan was not yet 20 years old when he fought in the Battle at Green Mountain during the American Revolutionary war and something happened to him that changed the path of his entire life, though we don't find out what until the final story in the book. These stories take place more than 50 years later, when Nathan is coming to the end of his life. In each story he uses his magic to help a different person, often not in the manner they expected or even desired. The hill-billy vernacular, and his conversations with the animals around him, especially his bull, are fascinating in the way in which they fit in with the plot, the animals innate nature, and the fact that the humans around Nathan only understand Nathan's half of the converstions. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it down

Space Gladiators is full of great short stories by Brain W. Aldiss, Ben Bova, David Drake, Keith Laumer and more. Edited by David Drake, this is one in a series. There is also SPACE DREADNOUGHTS and SPACE INFANTRY (also edited by David Drake).

This book is a the quintessential action book. Probably my favorite book, I have read it over 6 times. If you enjoyed the car wars game then this is the book for you.

This book is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand terrorism, particularly in the light of the events of September 11th. Drake explains how the beliefs, capabilities, strategies and tactics of terrorist groups influence their selection of targets, whilst other security and social elements place limitations on their actions. Although written before 11 September 2001, this book provides the basic building blocks necessary to interpret why terrorists do what they do, why they sometimes succeed, and why they often fail. Most importantly, it makes clear why the seemingly irrational violence of terrorism is often not only rational from the perspective of the terrorist, but logical.

This collection of short stories has man being hunted with savory twists of plot. Brings to mind the saying "The best laid plans of men and mice often go astray".

Time Safari was originally a short story, and was then published as a novel under the same name by including two additional stories: Calibration Run and Boundary Layer. It was published again as Tyrannosaur, with Calibration Run replaced by another story called Tyrannosaur.

These stories trace the central character Henry Vickers through his involvement with time travel (through a mechanism invented in Israel). Vicker's is the modern day white hunter born a hundred years too late and he is unable to make a living in the modern world, even failing in marriage. Vickers finds that being a safari guide is the thing he is cut out to be and he can accept the rugged in-the-wilds life. He marries a client who also shares an interest in outdoors and hunting, and they form a team together.

People who are interested in pre-history, hunting and outdoors adventure will like this one. Calibration run is set in the age of saber-tooths and pre-human hominids, but is still a good! tie-in. The dinosaurs in the other stories are fast, and alive, not clunking grunting lizards. I read this before Jurassic Park ever came out and was wanting someone to make a good dinosaur movie as a result. Jurassic Park's velociraptors were straight out of Time Safari, except that David Drake's characters aren't clueless preppy sub-urbanites when they meet.

David Drake is a visual writer, concentrating on what is going on rather than dissecting the characters in self-centered introspection. He includes a number of technical details to add grit, yet he doesn't (for example) make up some hokey theory of time travel mechanics and try to expound on it, boring the reader with pages of fake quantum mechanics like some writers are guilty of. He is the type of writer who admits to an interest in dinosaurs since he was a boy, and who also admits that his version of the dinosaur will one day be outdated. And he concentrates on people; his stories expound on human interaction, an! d while they feature disasters they aren't horror stories. Similar to this book is Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World novel (the original, not Michael Chrichton's version) which is dated and illogical, but interesting, and L. Sprague de Camp's Rivers of Time stories.

This book was great! The entire Fleet Series is excellent. This book is a collection of stories based upon the science-fictional series "The Fleet". The first story is about Khalian pirates, and a brave Fleet navy officer. The book continues to tell other stories about the war against the Syndicate of Families. I am currently on the waiting list to buy books 2,4,6. I have really loved this book!