Trivia / David Drake

• Write Who You Hate: David Drake sometimes included various detestable characters named Platt in his novels. (There are two in the RCN series alone, a Spoiled Brat and a child molester.) These are named after a critic named Charles Platt who unfavorably reviewed Hammer's Slammers with a line that if Drake had ever served in the military, he wouldn't write "such queasy voyeurism". Drake, who served in Vietnam as a US Army interrogator attached to the 11th Armored Cavalry and started writing Military Science Fiction as self-therapy, took this remark rather personally; the best any character named Platt can hope for in his works is to be merely stupid.

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