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Books/Stories in Series Marching Through Georgia (Baen, ISBN 0-671-65407-1, May '88) Under the Yoke (Baen, ISBN 0-671-69843-5, Oct '89) The Stone Dogs (Baen, ISBN 0-671-72009-0, Aug '90) Drakon (Baen, ISBN 0-671-87711-9, Feb '96) The Domination (Baen, ISBN 0-671-57794-8, May '99) Omnibus edition of Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke, and The Stone Dogs. Lacks appendices and some chapter headings from the novels, but contains some new filler material from the perspective of Carmaggio. Drakas! (Baen, ISBN 0-671-31946-9, Nov 2000) Short Story collection. Various authors, including Turtledove, Barnes, Lindskold, Baur, Talbott. S.M. Stirling editor, no new Stirling fiction work within.

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The Draka novels postulate a dystopian slave-holding militaristic (white) African empire founded by British Loyalists who escaped to South Africa after the American Revolution rather than to Canada (as in our history). They were later joined by French Royalist emigrés, Icelandic refugees, and demobbed veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, then by tens of thousands of defeated Confederates after the American Civil War. Stirling provides a timeline for its historical development through the 19th and 20th centuries, first as the Crown Colony of Drakia (for Francis Drake), gradually breaking away from British control to become the Dominion, then the Domination, of the Draka. The Draka culture is remarkable for combining a strictly race- and class-based hierarchical society with near-complete gender-equality (including female soldiers in integrated military units in combat roles). The Draka are greatly outnumbered by their slaves, and quite ruthless in maintaining their rule. Compared to current western society, nudity and sexuality are much less taboo among Draka.

As a result of the intense manpower pressures stemming from their conquest of Africa through the 19th century, all Draka are liable for service in the military/security forces, and the Draka-only Citizen Force is by far the deadliest and most advanced military machine on the planet. But there are never enough Draka (only 30 million or so at the start of World War 2) to go around, and the bulk of the Domination's Armed Forces are made up of "Janissary" Legions recruited from the Serf population. The Citizen Force provides the élite cutting edge, while the "Janissaries" are the cannon fodder.

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