Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

On 6/1/24 21:50, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <lc1hq0F9p6tU1@mid.individual.net>,
  ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote: >> It was kind of a frustrating place to "end" the series.  It *was* nice to

 >> see the Draka get their comeuppance in one of the Raj Whitehall spinoffs.
 >
 > The Chosen were Draka wanna-bees, not quite the real thing.
I talked briefly with David Drake once and he said he had specifically setup that book
for the Chosen to fail, with some implication of using it as a corrective for his
co-author (it has been about 30 years since that conversation so my ability to parse
the sidebands has decayed).
Jon
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