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	Dragon*Con Biography: [David Drake]
		David Drake was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on September 24, 1945.
		David finished law school and was hired as Assistant Town Attorney for the Town of Chapel Hill, NC.
		David's first story sold when he was an undergraduate, but he didn't start writing seriously until he got back from 'Nam.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/draked.html (212 words)

	How far away is our E.T neighbor? Great Debates: Part II :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
		Frank Drake, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute, and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
		David Grinspoon, Principal Scientist in the Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and author of the forthcoming book "Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life".
		David Grinspoon: I agree with the belief that Mars is currently lifeless.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article237.html (1519 words)

	David Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature.
		He also contributed outlines to the Belisarius series series (written by Eric Flint), and the General series (written by S.M. Stirling).
		Drake is listed as a co-author of these (and many other) books, but he openly admits that he did the smaller part of the work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Drake (164 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: With the Lightnings
		David Drake is the author of Igniting the Reaches and Through the Breach (1995), The Dragon Lord (1979) and To Bring the Light (1996) as well as the North-World series.
		Drake sets the scene in a leisurely fashion, but once an Alliance-sponsored coup unfolds, the action is fast and furious -- and clever and fun.
		Drake is an underrated writer who's beginning to get some recognition outside military SF circles (though not on the award ballots -- his sole major nomination was for the World Fantasy Award -- for a 1975 short story.) His first SF story was published in 1967 (at the ripe old age of 22).
	www.sfsite.com /10b/with43.htm (576 words)

	Greene County Biography Ref. Page
		DAVID JACKSON DRAKE, a merchant and Deputy Postmaster of Newark, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, December 20, 1823, and is the son of George and Rachel (Johnson) Drake, natives of Ohio, in which State they lived until their respective deaths.
		Drake is a Republican in politics, and he and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
		Drake is an old and honored citizen of Greene County, and he and family are respected by all who know them.
	members.tripod.com /%7Edebmurray/greene/grnbioref.htm (4138 words)

	David Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drake's magic is more complex than fantasy magic, and the dangers of uncontrollable power form an important theme here.
		Into this world appear survivors from the last such peak: Tenoctris, a sorceress swept out of the past as her civilization sank catastrophically beneath the sea; the ghost of the greatest ruler, King Carus of the Isles; and the magician known only as the Hooded One, who actually caused that ancient catastrophe.
		"Unlike most modern fantasy, David Drake's Lord of the Isles is an epic with the texture of the legends of yore, with rousing action and characters to cheer for.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/daviddrake.html (926 words)

	Oasis: David Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drake is upset that he was able to bring his play to film before its inspiration was able to hit the screen.
		Drake has been an actor his entire life, from the time he was 10, so he never had a problem growing up finding gay role models.
		Drake came out early, but didn't let that get in the way of dating a couple of women when he was 18 and 19, after he had already had relationships with men.
	www.oasismag.com /Issues/0007/cover.html (2416 words)

	CD Baby: DAVID HB DRAKE: Secret Garden - from folklib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David is a regular performer at regional folk festivals, Irish Fest, Summerfest, Wisconsin State Fair, Old World Wisconsin, coffeehouses, colleges, community centers, libraries, and nature centers throughout the Midwest.
		David is frequently seen performing benefits for a wide spectrum of social causes including the "Living Activism" series raising funds for Native American food pantries, the "AIDS Walk", the WAMI children's music education effort, for Pier Wisconsin environmental education events, and for "Peace Action" events promoting social justice and world peace
		David has been a professional dancer with Betty Salamun's DANCECIRCUS and the Milwaukee Ballet, actor, troubadour and swordsman with the "Ring of Steel" theatrical combat troupe, stage lighting designer, and minstrel.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/dhbdrake/from/folklib (575 words)

	David Drake -- The Forlorn Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Drake turns away from his "Hammer's Slammers" universe and gives us a view of mercenaries fighting in a different milieu.
		This is about my favourite of Drake's SF -- i'm not sure why, but it's a bit more satisfying than some of his other work.
		A mercenary regiment whose Colonel has been assasinated, the crew of a damaged spaceship and a young officer and two enlisted men from the regular army of the side employing the mercenaries must band together and overcome hardships and dangers from foe and friend alike.
	www.electronictiger.com /reviews/forlorn.htm (124 words)

	Wisconsin Humanities Council - Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David HB Drake presents a portrait of the lives of nineteenth century Great Lakes sailors.
		David Drake serves as shantyman and educator/historian aboard Wisconsin’s flagship, the schooner Denis Sullivan, performing historic Great Lakes songs on concertina, banjo, guitar, dulcimer, and Native American flute.
		David HB Drake is the resident musician for the Wisconsin Lake Schooner Project’s three masted schooner Denis Sullivan, in his homeport of Milwaukee.
	www.wisconsinhumanities.org /speak/catalog0405/drake.html (167 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David has served aboard the environmental ship CLEARWATER, is the outreach editor and shantyman for the tall ship Denis Sullivan, and performed for Amy nature centers and environmental organizations including Greenpeace and the World Singout for Peace.
		David includes Contemporary, Traditional, and Original songs recognizing many of the celebrations occurring at the turning of the year.
		David acts as song leader for an evening of those good old songs we grew up on if you're willing to admit you're a boomer.
	www.schoolassemblyguide.com /ddrakes.html (1011 words)

	Lifetime of Complex Life: Great Debates Part IV :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
		David Grinspoon: If complex life sometimes leads to sentient life with powers slightly greater than our own at present, then it need not accept "natural" climate evolution as inevitable.
		Right now we are in the stage of inadvertently altering our global climate, but it is not inconceivable that we, or someone else, could advance to the stage of purposefully altering climate for the benefit of the biosphere.
		It has even been suggested by Gregory Benford that the main sequence lifetime of stars can be greatly extended by developing a technology which stirs the star, bringing fresh hydrogen to the core - after all, about 90% of a star's mass is intact when the giant stage is approached.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article240.html (1867 words)

	Other David Drakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are various David Drakes out there.At present I write fantasy and SF exclusively, although I did a number of horror short stories in the '70s.
		David Drake who lives in Chapel Hill and works behind the camera for WUNC-TV.
		David Drake who wrote the romance novel Strangers and Lovers, published in 1986.
	www.david-drake.com /notme.html (210 words)

	Encyclopedia: David Drake
		Hammers Slammers is the title of a 1979 collection of military science fiction short stories by author David Drake (and, by extension, of the fictional universe in which these and many other of Drakes stories and novels are set).
		The Belisarius Series is a collection of novels written by David Drake and Eric Flint and published by Baen Books.
		The General (also known as the Raj Whitehall series after the lead character) is a set of military science fiction books written by S.M. Stirling from an outline by David Drake.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/David-Drake (503 words)

	LaGrange County Biography Ref. Page
		J.L. Drake was born in Holmes County, Ohio, November 1, 1817; the son of David and Rachel (Sills) Drake, who were natives respectively of Maryland and Virginia, and the parents of eight children.
		David Drake was twice married, by his first wife having two children.
		DAVID SHROCK is a native of Somerset County, Penn., and the son of John and Barbara (Yoder) Shrock, the former of whom was born in Germany in 1766, and the latter, a native of Pennsylvania.
	members.tripod.com /%7Edebmurray/lagrange/lgbioref-1a.htm (4230 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| David Drake: Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (Palgrave 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard Henri Lévy and Pierre Bourdieu.
		In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's role in the mid-1970s to the 1980s and how a new generation engaged with Islam, racism, the Balkans War, and the strikes of 1995.
		David Drake is Principal Lecturer in French, Middlesex University.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/philosophy/drakeintellectuals.html (161 words)

	David R. Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dr. Drake is the director of research for the Department of Endodontics.
		Drake's teaching responsibilities include oral microbiology and immunology at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and research design at the graduate level.
		Drake is a member of the NIDCR Special Grants Review Committee, current member of the American and International Associations for Dental Research, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.dentistry.uiowa.edu /public/Faculty/drake.html (282 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: With the Lightnings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Veteran military SF author Drake (the Hammer's Slammers series) launches an unlikely pair of star warriors at the far-future and evil Alliance of Free Stars, which is locked in mortal combat with the Republic of Cinnabar over the wealthy trading world of Kostroma.
		David Drake wrote a novel with Janet Morris, "Arc Riders," which is one of the finest novels about time travel in Science Fiction.
		Drake writes about a group of sailors (and one civilian) trapped on a planet which changes sides in an ongoing interstellar war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671578189?v=glance (1645 words)

	David Drake: Descendent of Vlad Dracula
		David Drake -- a descendent of the infamous Vlad "The Impaler" Dracula!
		Drake describes the World Dracula Congress as an annual convention sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula (TSD), which attracts fans of both the historic and vampiric Draculas.
		Drake had won an Obie Award (presented by New York's Village Voice) for "Outstanding Performance" in his 1992 one-man play, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, which he describes as an "autobiographical monologue centered on my personal and political coming-of-age as a young gay man in New York City.
	www.hollywoodinvestigator.com /2002/drake.htm (1354 words)

	David Drake -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Drake is a successful author of (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction and (Imagination unrestricted by reality) fantasy literature.
		He is one of the premier authors of the (Click link for more info and facts about military science fiction) military science fiction subgenre.
		His best-known non-collaborative work is the (Click link for more info and facts about Hammer's Slammers) Hammer's Slammers series of (Click link for more info and facts about military science fiction) military science fiction.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/david_drake.htm (187 words)

	Descendants of David Grassett Drake
		This information is based primarily on the research of Elizabeth Horton, who deposited her research notes in the Orange Co [NY] Genealogical Society in 1936.
		David Grassett1 Drake1 was born 21 December 1759 in Goshen, Orange Co, NY, and died 03 June 1850 in Chester, Orange Co, NY2.
		David Haines Drake13, born 11 September 1810 in Orange Co, NY; died 03 September 1852 in Chester, Orange Co, NY.
	www.xroyvision.com.au /drake/researchs/191.html (627 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS David Drake's Award-Winning Play Comes to the Screen -- and Its Creator Again Finds the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drake's play, a portable 90-minute piece that can be performed in "any little fl-box theater in the world," as Theatre Project director Bobby Mrozek puts it, has been staged just about everywhere since it opened at New York's Perry Street Theater in the summer of 1992.
		Drake's newfound fame was opening up other opportunities, but his commitment to touring with Kramer limited his ability to take advantage of them.
		"[Drake] stirred in me a desire to connect and respond to the political and cultural crises in which we were surrounded at the time, and which still exist, daily," Kirkman says.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=3602 (5715 words)

	David Drake
		Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now famous author, David Drake tells a military story like no other, with gut-wrenching description that puts the reader in the midst of the action right on the battlefield.
		Drake created the audience for mercenary military science fiction with his best-selling "Hammer's Slammers" books.
		Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets.
	www.baen.com /library/ddrake.htm (120 words)

	CD Baby: David HB Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David is a 20 year tradition at the world's largest Irish festival, Irish Fest (Milwaukee WI).
		Heartland is a musical history of Illinois in song and story which introduce kids to the story of the state with sing-alongs and gems of history.
		David HB Drake's "Kidstuff" is a live recording of David's children's sing-along concert.
	www.cdbaby.com /all/dhbdrake (481 words)

	David Drake 10/2002
		Drake has the range, versatility and heart to reach an audience beyond the perimeters of so-called 'gay theater.' He is a major voice with a soul big enough to touch us all."
		Premiering just in time for Halloween, DTW presents Son of Drakula, written by and starring David Drake, as part of DTW's new Outer Edge series, an interdisciplinary presentation and residency series focused on serving and engaging the gay and lesbian community.
		Directed by Chuck Brown, Drake tackles a host of cultural phenomena: the endurance of Bram Stoker's creation, the familial obstacles of male intimacy, modern gay identity politics, post-Communist Eastern Europe and the wild, wild world of vampire worship.
	www.dtw.org /20022003/david_drake_02.htm (212 words)

	DAVID HB DRAKE BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DAVID HB DRAKE has been called "a gentle troubadour" and "elemental folksinger".
		David was named "Family Performer of the Year 2001" by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry and the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts 2001 Community Arts Development Award for service to the arts.
		David's eclectic repertoire includes sea shanties and songs of the Great Lakes, Irish ballads, children's and family songs, environmental music, vintage tunes, novelty songs, traditional folk music and folk classics from the "sixties".
	my.execpc.com /~wi-sing/bio.htm (419 words)

	David Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drake is listed as a co-author these (and many other) books but he admits that he did the smaller part the work.
		In a series of short stories, author David Drake explores the dark side of war and a dystopic future.
		Drake is a Viet Nam veteran and that experience gives his stories a gritty realism that shows through even in the more space-opera stories of 'the Fleet....
	www.freeglossary.com /David_Drake (400 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Reaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I am a David Drake fan and especially like his Hammer's Slammers and Leary and Mundy RCN series.
		Drake's forward warns readers of the seeming incongruity of troops traveling by starship but still using single-fire weapons.
		David Drake indicates he modeled Ricimer on Sir Francis Drake (no relation!) and Gregg on one of Francis's best friends.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743471776?v=glance (1442 words)

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