> 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
> "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?
Greetings All, I guess Drake and Jim Baen have to make their mortgage payments
somehow and if we keep buying repackaged anthologies they get to enjoy their
retirements! "The Tank Lords" included the entire novel "Rolling Hot".
John Kinder Jkinder@worldnet.att.net
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy
evidence of the fact" George Elliot
> From: Christopher Weuve <caw@wizard.net>
> Is it the novel _Rolling Hot_, or a short story by the same name? My
> At 1:46 PM -0500 8/19/97, Christopher Weuve wrote:
As near as I can tell,The Tank Lords contains the same text as the novel
(released in softcover) Rolling Hot. RH is very definitely a
novel, sort of an abridged coming-of-age book in the same vein as
<I>The Red Badge of Courage. Although that may be saying a bit too much for
Drake. I consider it to be a complete novel, with three major interludes. We
have:
1) The Camp
2) The Bridge [bonus points if you know who wrote this]
3) The Battle
As written, neither section can stand as a short story but they are long
enough for novellas. I think the book (RH) would do better serialized, than in
three seperate packages.
I do have a bone to pick with "The Tank Lords." Typos, typos, typos. A great
bloody lot of them. Most definitely more than in the original publications. In
this age of computers, how on earth did they manage to introduce... introduce!
errors into the printing process? The only thing I can think of, is that
someone OCRd the original texts, and then spell checked the thing. What a
mess.
> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:
> Drake's books can sometimes be confusing, because there is a lot of
"Tank Lords" is also in one other book as a filler bonus...
> Anyone else having trouble keeping score?
It's a bit irritating... "should I buy this latest compilation for the one
story I don't yet have?"
But it stems from the fact that the original shorts were published in
magazines a long ago -- we're seeing compilations. Practically all of
the
newer stories are book-length.
On Aug 20, 1997 at 2:03:51 AM, Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@swob.dna.fi>
wrote:
> It's a bit irritating... "should I buy this latest compilation for the
> one story I don't yet have?"
Or, in my case, "should I buy all this stuff *in a single volume* that I
already have as shorts in five other books?"
Well, at least I now have an extra copy of _Rolling Hot_ to send to my
brother...