Eternal Emperor Short Stories – An homage to Hammer’s Slammers
The once completed and pretty much unreadable eternal emperor novel I wrote 4 years ago is still locked safely away where no one can read it. My writing and editing is much better these days and will presumably only get better.
Rather than go and rewrite a novel that I have written at least 4 times in the past 2 decades, I chose to do something different. I was reading David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers collection recently and it struck me that I should just rewrite the story as a series of short stories in a style of Drake. Why write a long novel about a 6 events and leave the reader asking why you did it, when I could write 6 short stories in the style of Hammer’s Slammers and get the back story out-of-the-way.
The choice to create the “Arrested Development Collection” seems so natural once I realized that Drake was the author that inspired these stories in the first place. I love Military Science Fiction. When you read this collection I think you will see the Hammer’s Slammers style in these stories, and I am happy if you find it enjoyable.
I will be posting the stories when the editing completes. Once it is all done I will post another version with the entire collection.
