1980s Supermarket Pulp Fiction

Hammer’s Slammers

Just thinking back to the books I used to devour, mostly from supermarket shelves during our weekly “supplies run” to Dierberg’s (we lived kinda out in the middle of nowhere, and while a groceries run is apparently “only” 15 minutes each way, I remember them being relatively infrequent). From memory, some titles:

• Deadman Switch, by Timothy Zahn (yes, that Timothy Zahn)
• Lacey and his Friends, David Drake (lot of David Drake on this list)
• Hammer’s Slammers, David Drake (apparently several books in this series, at this point)
• Crisis of Empire, David Drake 
• Rogue Bolo, Keith Laumer
• The man who pulled down the sky, John Barnes

And of course I had a subscription to Analog, and read my ... IDK, step-aunt? (Grandfather’s new wife’s daughter from a previous marriage.) Copies of OMNI.

And of course there were the Big Names. Isaac Asimov’s “three laws of robotics” series, and when I’d exhausted those, the Robot City series. All the Foundation books I could get my hands on. There used to be a book store around the Chesterfield, MO area named Little Professor, and I was a regular. (I’m almost positive it was in one of the storefronts at Hilltown Village?)

 

Deadman Switch