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Hammer's Slammers series (or the Hammerverse, Slammerverse, Slammers universe, Hammer universe) is a setting for a series of military science fiction short stories and novels by author David Drake. The series follows the career of a future mercenary tank regiment called Hammer's Slammers , after their leader, Colonel Alois Hammer.
The first story follows Colonel Hammer himself, as well as introducing Joachim Steuben, his right-hand man and bodyguard.It opens with a conversation between Secretary Tromp, a powerful politician from the wealthy planet Friesland, and a Friesland Guards armored regiment officer, in Tromp's office at the spaceport hotel on the Friesland colony world of Melpomene.
His best-known solo work is the Hammer's Slammers series of military science fiction. [3] His newer RCN Series was a space opera inspired by the Aubrey–Maturin novels. [7] In 1997, Drake began his largest fantasy series, Lord of the Isles, using elements of Sumerian religion and medieval technology.
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Terry Ballantine Bisson was born on February 12, 1942, [1] in Madisonville, Kentucky, and raised in Owensboro, Kentucky. [2] [3]While a student at Grinnell College in 1961, Bisson was one of a group of students who traveled to Washington, D.C., during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "peace race".
The hammer is a part of a firearm that is used to strike the percussion cap/primer, or a separate firing pin, [1] to ignite the propellant and fire the projectile. It is so called because it resembles a hammer in both form and function. The hammer itself is a metal piece that forcefully rotates about a pivot point. [2]
In the first, a jury found in favor of a gun store in Alaska after a gun purchased by Jason Coday was used in a murder. The second resulted in a six million dollar verdict against Badger Guns after guns negligently sold there were used to shoot police officers. [32] In 2010, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in Ileto v.
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