Balefires

Jacket illustration by Richard Pellegrino

Balefires is the long-awaited collection of David Drake's weird and fantastic fiction. Before Drake was a best-selling author of military science fiction, he was a prolific writer of horror and fantasy short fiction. Balefires collects some of his earliest professional sales (including his first sale to Arkham House.) In addition, Balefires brings together many stories set in the worlds of his fantasy novels (Ranks of Bronze, Lord of the Isles, etc.) and contains original fiction. More than just a collection of stories, Balefires features extensive story notes that chronicle the development of the writing career of one of the science fiction's most popular writers, and provides detailed snapshots of the larger than life editors, publishers and writers that Drake has worked with throughout his career.

Contents:

• A Land of Romance
• Arclight
• Awakening
• Best of Luck
• Black Iron
• Blood Debt
• Children of the Forest
• The Master of Demons
• Denkirch
• Firefight
• Lord of the Depths
• Men Like Us
• Smokie Joe
• Something Had to be Done
• Than Curse the Darkness
• The Automatic Rifleman
• The Barrow Troll
• The Dancer in the Flames
• The Elf House
• The False Prophet
• The Hunting Ground
• The Red Leer
• The Shortest Way
• The Song of the Bone

Trade Hardcover

Limited to 150 signed copies and includes a comprehensive bibliography of Drake's work