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So let’s head back to Gen 4.
One of the stories I was most looking forward too in that New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that I’ve used for stuff like Crouch End and Dark Awakening was a short story by an author that I own a few books on my fantasy bookshelf – David Drake’s “Than Curse the Darkness” a short story in this collection published in 1980.
So who’s David Drake?
He’s a prolific publisher of science fiction (mostly). He’s one of the best known military sci fi space opera writers currently out there, having served in the Vietnam War. That service in combat and the military informs his stuff. Soe of this stuff has been turned into RPGs or board games. His stuff, particularly the Hammer’s Slammers stuff, is very influential on things like the BattleTech universe.
He also writes some fantasy. In 1997, he began a 9 novel series with Lord of the Isles, and some of those novels sit on my bookshelves
Anyways, let’s look at his short story, “Than Curse the Darkness”
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