Drake's The Tank Lords (was Re: 121st Marine Reaction Co.)

On Aug 18, 1997 at 10:29:13 PM, "John Kinder" wrote:

> I was in a Waldenbooks today and saw what looked like a new David
Drake 
> book. On closer examination it is a volume with the novel "Rolling
Hot", 
> the original short story "Under the Hammer", two or three other short 
> stories, and the backround material on the universe of the Slammers, 
> Drake's experiences in Vietnam, and the TO+E of the regiment. I don't 
> know if "Hammers Slammers" is out of print, but this book would be a
good 
> intoduction to the series. It is published by Baen Books and is titled

> "The Tank Lords". Sorry I didn't write the ISBN. 

Is it the novel _Rolling Hot_, or a short story by the same name?  My
copies 
at home, but I didn;t think they were the same.  Of course, I could be
way 
wrong.

Drake's books can sometimes be confusing, because there is a lot of
double-
dipping.  For example, first we had collection of short-stories and
background 
interludes called _Hammer's Slammers_.	Then the short story "The Tank
Lords" 
was published, in Pournelle's _There Will Be War_ series, IIRC.  The
_HS_ was 
reissued with "The Tank Lords" added to it.  Now there is a new book,
_The 
Tank Lords_, which not only includes "The Tank Lords" AND the interludes
from 
the original _HS_, but it also incliudes "Rolling Hot", which may or may
not 
be the sum contents of _Rolling Hot_, which I'm now beginning to think
may not 
have been a novel but a collection of three novellas or so, one of which
may 
have been called "Rolling Hot".  [For extra credit, diagram the above 
sentence. <grin>]

Anyone else having trouble keeping score?

--Chris Weuve		[My opinion, not my employers.]
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