The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Vol. 2

David G. Hartwell Pleasantville, NYApril 2005

FOREWORD: WE HAPPY FEW

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

—Shakespeare