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The RCN Series〔Baen.com, ("The Roads to the RCN Series" ), David Drake, 2012 (accessed March 22, 2012)〕 (also known as the Lt. Leary series) is a sequence of stand-alone science fiction novels by David Drake. They center around Daniel Leary, an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy (RCN), and Adele Mundy, a librarian and spy. Drake has described it as "an SF version of the Aubrey/Maturin series" by Patrick O'Brian. In contrast to the hardcore military science fiction bent of Drake's Hammer's Slammers series, these novels are more character driven and feature political intrigue as well as battles. The plots of the novels are based on historical incidents, often from Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. The prologue of each book includes details of its historical basis. == Creation == After discovering the Aubrey/Maturin novels, Drake gave some thought to space opera with two equal but very different characters as protagonists. When David Weber asked Drake for a novella to appear in the first Honorverse anthology, ''More Than Honor'', Drake wrote a story named "A Grand Tour" about a young nobleman and his older, female tutor. Drake, Baen and Weber all liked the story, but Drake, feeling the concept needed a full-length novel to work properly, wrote ''With the Lightnings'' which uses different characters in a similar pairing.〔〔 (What’s the connection between the novella A Grand Tour and the RCN series? ), David Drake, May 2010 〕〔(Prologue to ''With The Lightnings'' ), David Drake, July 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RCN Series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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