Influence of Traveller on Sci Fi

[Elliot]

Just wondering has any Sci fi writer or TV series producer ever admitted playing or being influenced by Traveller over the past 25 years?

 

[WendellM]

Jefferson P. Swycaffer's 1984 novel, Not in our Stars, has the following note in the front: "Several of the concepts and nomenclatures used in this story are from the games Imperium(tm) and Traveller(r), published by Game Designers' Workshop and designed by Marc W. Miller, to whom all my thanks for his kind permission regarding this use. - J.P.S."

 

[Shadowdancer]

I remember back in the 1980s reading an article (can't remember the author's name) in which the author claimed he had one or two books published, the start of a series, which were based upon his Traveller campaign.

 

[bozzutoman]

Illustrator/graphic novellist Christopher Moeller is very inspired by traveller. Check out his Iron Empires universe specifically.

 

[GypsyComet]

Originally posted by Paraquat Johnson:
I remember back in the 1980s reading an article (can't remember the author's name) in which the author claimed he had one or two books published, the start of a series, which were based upon his Traveller campaign.

The Exonidas Highport articles in Dragon many years back were written by the above-mentioned Jeff Swycaffer. There were five or six books in that universe before he stopped.

Clifford Faust's Essense of Evil trilogy is a Traveller campaign if ever I've read one...

So is Brian Daley's "Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh". Another trilogy, and one worth hunting for.

Many of the other authors with a Traveller feel actually predate the game, so the influence works the other direction.