David Drake - Article Index

Encyclopedia - David Drake: Encyclopedia - David Drake
David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. He is one of the premier authors ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Monkeys: Encyclopedia - Twelve Monkeys
Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 time travel movie co-written by David Webb Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. The film deals with problems o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia - King Arthur
King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia - Belisarius
Flavius Belisarius (505-565) was one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire and one of the greatest generals in history. Belisa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Honorverse: Encyclopedia Ii - Honorverse - The Books
All the books up to and including At All Costs are available on free-to-copy CDs produced by Baen Books. Weber has stated that there will...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Background
Psychological distress after trauma was reported in 1900 BC by an Egyptian physician who described hysterical reactions to trauma (Veith ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Science Fiction - Characteristics
At its best (as in, for example, Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers or Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan novels), militar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary - Mercenaries And The Laws Of War
See also laws of war. In the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions (GC) of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Vict...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cyberpunk Works: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cyberpunk Works - Print Media
List of cyberpunk works - List of novels. The Artificial Kid (1980) by Bruce Sterling City Come A-Walkin' (1980) by John Shirley The W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - History
The name Malwa is derived from the ancient Aryan tribe of Malavas, about whom very little is known apart from the fact that they founded ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hammer's Slammers: Encyclopedia Ii - Hammer's Slammers - The Main Series
Hammer's Slammers - Repackaged. The contents of the first five books of the main series were repackaged and republished, with some addi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thermobaric Weapon: Encyclopedia Ii - Thermobaric Weapon - Weapon Effects
The blast wave destroys unreinforced buildings and equipment. Unprotected personnel are injured or killed as well. The antipersonnel effe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baen Books: Encyclopedia Ii - Baen Books - Baen Books Authors
Although Baen himself is politically conservative (which has led to friction with and departures by at least one liberal author), he publ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Arthur In Various Media
King Arthur - Literature. John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a traditional take in modern language. T.H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carcosa: Encyclopedia Ii - Carcosa - The King In Yellow
The city was later used more extensively in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories published in 1895 entitled The King in Yello...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codominium: Encyclopedia Ii - Codominium - A History Of The Codominium Universe
The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the CoDominium, a political alliance and union between the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lich: Encyclopedia Ii - Lich - Liches In Fantasy Fiction
In the Dungeons & Dragons game, and in many works of fantasy fiction that draw upon Dungeons & Dragons for inspiration, a lich is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - History Of Alternate History Fiction
Alternative history fiction - Antiquity. The earliest example of alternative history appears to be Book IX, sections 17-19, of Livy's H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Background
Psychological distress after trauma was reported in 1900 BCE by an Egyptian physician who described hysterical reactions to trauma (Veith...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - S.m. Stirling: Encyclopedia Ii - S.m. Stirling - Criticism Of Stirling
Stirling is known to be outspoken and drastic when it comes to his political opinions. He agrees with the conservative "hawk" position on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - Belisarius In Fiction
Belisarius was featured in several works of art before the 20th century. The oldest of them is the historical treatise by his very own se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dirac Sea: Encyclopedia Ii - Dirac Sea - In Fiction
The Dirac Sea provides a mechanism for time-travel in Geoffrey A. Landis' Nebula Award-winning short story "Ripples in the Dirac Sea". It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The General Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The General Series - Books
The General series - Original series. Centering on Raj Ammenda Halgern da Luis Whitehall The Forge (1991) The Hammer (1992) The Anvil ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Fantasy Award For Best Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - World Fantasy Award For Best Novel - Award Winners And Finalists
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - 1975. The 1975 WFC, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was chaired by Kirby McCauley. Judges were R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Arthur In Various Media
King Arthur - Literature. John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a traditional take in modern language. T.H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Monkeys: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve Monkeys - Synopsis
Bruce Willis stars as James Cole, a convicted petty criminal of about a generation in the future, when a remnant of the human race lives ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Fantasy Award For Best Novella: Encyclopedia Ii - World Fantasy Award For Best Novella - Award Winners And Finalists
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella - 1975. The 1975 WFC, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was chaired by Kirby McCauley. Judges were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karl Edward Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Karl Edward Wagner - Overview
While some of his work is set in Robert E. Howard's universe (featuring Conan and Bran Mak Morn), he also created his own mystical and pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Asprin: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Asprin - Bibliography
Robert Asprin - Series. Myth Another Fine Myth (1978) Myth Conceptions (1980) Myth Directions (1982) Hit or Myth (1983) Myth-ing Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L. Sprague De Camp: Encyclopedia Ii - L. Sprague De Camp - Life
Trained as an aeronautical engineer, De Camp received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the California Instit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carcosa: Encyclopedia Ii - Carcosa - Carcosa In Other Fiction
Later writers, including H. P. Lovecraft and his many admirers, became great fans of Chambers' work and incorporated the name of Carcosa ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Prevalence
PTSD may be experienced following any traumatic experience, or series of experiences which satisfy the criteria, and that do not allow th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Biology Of Ptsd
Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry. PTSD displays biochemical changes in the brain and body, which are different from othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Asprin: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Asprin - Biographical Timeline
Asprin's first novel, The Cold Cash War, an expansion of an earlier short story of the same title, was published in 1977. Over the next f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - The Arthurian Romance
The first major popularization of Arthurian legend was Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae, a medieval equivalent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Arthur's Swords
In Robert de Boron's Merlin, later followed by Thomas Malory, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone and anvil. In th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Symptoms And Their Possible Explanations
Symptoms can include general restlessness, insomnia, aggressiveness, depression, dissociation, emotional detachment, or nightmares. Ampli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codominium: Encyclopedia Ii - Codominium - The War World Series
The War World series is set mostly on a single planet, Haven. It is a marginally habitable planet originally settled by exiles from the C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Treatment
There have been scores of treatments suggested for the treatment of PTSD. One technique specifically targeted at the disorder is Eye Move...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Science Fiction - Viewpoint
A growing tendency in military SF, largely due to the conservative authors who have dominated the genre in recent years, is to portray de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thermobaric Weapon: Encyclopedia Ii - Thermobaric Weapon - History
Arguably, the use of flamethrowers in the trench warfare of World War I (the flamethrower was a German invention) could constitute the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Science Fiction - Authors
Defining authors of the genre include: Robert A. Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers, among other books. David Drake, author of the Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Earliest Traditions Of Arthur
Arthur first appears in Welsh literature. In a surviving early Welsh poem, The Gododdin (ca. 594 AD), the poet Aneirin (ca. 535-600 AD) w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lich: Encyclopedia Ii - Lich - Historical Background
While this usage of the term "lich" is particular to Dungeons & Dragons and other modern fantasy fiction, the underlying idea of elud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Science Fiction - History
Perhaps the first works of modern Military SF were H. Beam Piper's Uller Uprising (1952) (based on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny) and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - Elements Of Alternate History
There are certain elements which are common to all alternate histories, whether they deal with history on the micro-level (personal alter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - Demographics
The population of the Malwa region was about 18.9 million in 2001, with a population density of a moderate 231/km². The annual birth rat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - Geography
The Malwa region occupies a plateau in western Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan (between 21°10′N 73°45′E and 25°10′N 7...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - Economy
The region is one of the world's major opium producers. It was this crop that resulted in close connections between the economies of Malw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - Culture
The culture of Malwa has been significantly influenced by Gujarati and Rajasthani culture, because of their geographic proximity. Marathi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary - Mercenary Operations
It is known that mercenaries have been hired to fight in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Many of these were ex-Eastern Bloc soldiers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malwa: Encyclopedia Ii - Malwa - Tourism
The main tourist destinations in Malwa are places of historical or religious significance. The river Shipra and the city of Ujjain have b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L. Sprague De Camp: Encyclopedia Ii - L. Sprague De Camp - Works Nonfiction
De Camp enjoyed debunking doubtful history and claims of the supernatural, and to describe how ancient civilizations produced structures ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L. Sprague De Camp: Encyclopedia Ii - L. Sprague De Camp - Works Fiction
De Camp's first published story was "The Isolinguals" in the September 1937 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. He went on to write nume...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - Early Life And Career
Belisarius was probably born in Germane or Germania, a city that once stood on the site of present day Sapareva Banya in south-west Bulga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - The Arthur Of History
The possible historicity of the Arthur of legend has long been debated by scholars. One school of thought believes Arthur to have lived s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - Campaigns Against The Vandals
For his efforts, Belisarius was rewarded by Justinian with the command of a great land and sea expedition against the kingdom of the Vand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - Campaigns Against The Ostrogoths
Justinian now resolved to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could. In 535, he commissioned Belisarius to attack the Ostro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - The Legend Of Belisarius As A Blind Beggar
According to a story that gained popularity during the Middle Ages, Justinian is said to have ordered Belisarius' eyes to be put out, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belisarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Belisarius - His Later Life And Campaigns
The retirement of Belisarius came to an end in 559, when an army of Slavs and Bulgars crossed the Danube River to invade Byzantine territ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary - Mercenaries In Africa
Mercenary - 20th century. In the 20th century, mercenaries have been mostly involved in conflicts on the continent of Africa. There hav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary - Mercenaries In European History
Mercenary - Mercenaries in the classic era. Many Greek mercenaries fought for the Persian Empire during the early classic era. For exam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - The Boundaries Of Alternative History
This leads to readers encountering stories which read as though they were alternate history, but which are not. An example would be Rober...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Arthur's Swords
In Robert de Boron's Merlin, later followed by Thomas Malory, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone and anvil. In th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - Alternative History In Other Media
Several films have been made that exploit the concepts of alternative history, most notably Kevin Brownlow's It Happened Here. Another su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - Counterfactual And Virtual History
See main articles: historical revisionism, virtual history Historians also speculate in this manner; this type of speculation is known co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - Alternative History In Other Media
Several films have been made that exploit the concepts of alternative history, most notably Kevin Brownlow's It Happened Here. Another su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative History Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative History Fiction - Online Alternative Histories
soc.history.what-if is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussing alternative histories. This newsgroup has spawned a number of interesting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - Earliest Traditions Of Arthur
Arthur first appears in Welsh literature. In a surviving early Welsh poem, The Gododdin (ca. 594 AD), the poet Aneirin (ca. 535-600 AD) w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - The Arthurian Romance
The first major popularization of Arthurian legend was Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae, a medieval equivalent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Symptoms And Their Possible Explanations
Symptoms can include general restlessness, insomnia, aggressiveness, depression, dissociation, emotional detachment, or nightmares. Ampli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary - Mercenaries In Popular Culture
Like piracy, the mercenary ethos resonates with idealized adventure, mystery and danger. Examples of this are: The novel Dogs of War by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Biology Of Ptsd
Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry. PTSD displays biochemical changes in the brain and body, which are different from othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Prevalence
PTSD may be experienced following any traumatic experience, or series of experiences which satisfy the criteria, and that do not allow th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Treatment
PTSD is usually treated by a combination of psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy, group therapy, and exposure therapy are popular)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Arthur: Encyclopedia Ii - King Arthur - The Arthur Of History
The possible historicity of the Arthur of legend has long been debated by scholars. One school of thought believes Arthur to have lived s...   » Read the article