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"Space Vikings? There ain't no space vikings here. Just us honest traders. The settlement was burning, the settlers were dead. They didn't need that technology anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it." -- Simon Jester.
The reason the quote above is relevant will become aparant.
I've seen a thread on Traveller-esque Movies, I saw a thread on Traveller-esque games (some of which I remember fondly). Me, I like books. Novels, Comic books, Graphic novels, screenplay adaptations.. its all good. Here's some that I found Traveller-ish.
Albedo (Erma Felna, EDF, Birthright etc.) by Steve Gallacci
A comic and two editions of an rpg set in a far future with free fall intersteller craft, wingless aerodyne flying gunships and lorries and tanks and guns that wouldn't look unfamilier at all in the pages of latest Gunfantic's Gazetteer.
The background is a little strange though. All the characters are genetically modified animals. 85 to 95 % human. and wondering how the heck they got their start and who created them and... well it's worth reading. especially since there's an irony with Humans in the role of the dead 'ancients' or 'forerunners'
There was another 'furry' comic the furry's were actually aliens that were just drawn furry to make sales in a furry military small press mag. called 'furrlough' There were two (or three?) linked story lines:
1) one called 'Morrigan's' War' about the female commander of a misogonist occupying force during a war between intersteller empires for a particular planet. standard arm was an energy weapon that could stun or kill and came in formats and battery charges not unlike those of todays firearms (pistols, rifles, heavy weapons...) the vehicle tech was mostly grav craft.
2) the second whose name escapes me now. (my copies are buried in the bottom of several book filled Rubbermaid tub/totes) Was a sort of 'Tramp in armour'(Colin Forbes) type tale of a small ratag unit of 2 AFV's and an infantry unit caught behind enemy lines after Morrigan's forces (see above) overran them. It included a beautifully drawn action sequence of an arial battle between two flying tanks and a small space ship designed for ground attack.
But... NO such post would be complete without a mention of H. Beam Piper. He commited suicide in the 60's just before the cheques from his sales started comming in, but it was His work that helped revive Ace books in the 70's Jerry Pournelle (Mercenary, Mote in God's Eye etc.) always considered himself a protege of Piper's or so he says in the foreward to some of ace's collected short stories by HBP.
Piper had a grand sweep of history for his stories Generally refered to as the Terro-Human Future history. Earth Half blows itself up in the late 60's early seventies. Replacing the UN in that time is something called the Pan-Federation of the First Federation. It becomes first a world then a solar government. Somewhere along the way it becomes just the Terran Federation. about 5 or 6 hundred years into it's life it falls into a period of anarchy. During the long night we hear of Sworld Worlders (who name their homeworlds after swords, and are very touchy about their noble dignities) and Space Vikings, (a sworld worlder profesion of going out and looting the fallen planets of the former federation), The Federation is succeeded after many hundreds of years by an Empire....
There's more after, There's LOTs inbetween. Here are the Titles:
Four Day Planet/Lone Star Planet
(Lone Star Planet is not actully THFH story it's also been published as the short story 'A planet for Texans')
Uller Uprising
Little Fuzzy
Fuzzy Sapiens
Fuzzies and Other People
(the three above are his only trilogy, the last of which didn't see print until the 1990's and then only because the manuscript was found in a trunk in someone's storage.)
The Cosmic Computer (Also Published as 'Junkyard Planet')
Space Viking
Federation! (A short story omnibus)
Empire! (A short story omnibus)
The Worlds of H. Beam Piper (Not actually a THFH omnibus but a lot of his themes are still there.)
All of them very cool. All of them very traveller-esque.... or...
maybe
Traveller is Piper-esque?
The reason the quote above is relevant will become aparant.
I've seen a thread on Traveller-esque Movies, I saw a thread on Traveller-esque games (some of which I remember fondly). Me, I like books. Novels, Comic books, Graphic novels, screenplay adaptations.. its all good. Here's some that I found Traveller-ish.
Albedo (Erma Felna, EDF, Birthright etc.) by Steve Gallacci
A comic and two editions of an rpg set in a far future with free fall intersteller craft, wingless aerodyne flying gunships and lorries and tanks and guns that wouldn't look unfamilier at all in the pages of latest Gunfantic's Gazetteer.
The background is a little strange though. All the characters are genetically modified animals. 85 to 95 % human. and wondering how the heck they got their start and who created them and... well it's worth reading. especially since there's an irony with Humans in the role of the dead 'ancients' or 'forerunners'
There was another 'furry' comic the furry's were actually aliens that were just drawn furry to make sales in a furry military small press mag. called 'furrlough' There were two (or three?) linked story lines:
1) one called 'Morrigan's' War' about the female commander of a misogonist occupying force during a war between intersteller empires for a particular planet. standard arm was an energy weapon that could stun or kill and came in formats and battery charges not unlike those of todays firearms (pistols, rifles, heavy weapons...) the vehicle tech was mostly grav craft.
2) the second whose name escapes me now. (my copies are buried in the bottom of several book filled Rubbermaid tub/totes) Was a sort of 'Tramp in armour'(Colin Forbes) type tale of a small ratag unit of 2 AFV's and an infantry unit caught behind enemy lines after Morrigan's forces (see above) overran them. It included a beautifully drawn action sequence of an arial battle between two flying tanks and a small space ship designed for ground attack.
But... NO such post would be complete without a mention of H. Beam Piper. He commited suicide in the 60's just before the cheques from his sales started comming in, but it was His work that helped revive Ace books in the 70's Jerry Pournelle (Mercenary, Mote in God's Eye etc.) always considered himself a protege of Piper's or so he says in the foreward to some of ace's collected short stories by HBP.
Piper had a grand sweep of history for his stories Generally refered to as the Terro-Human Future history. Earth Half blows itself up in the late 60's early seventies. Replacing the UN in that time is something called the Pan-Federation of the First Federation. It becomes first a world then a solar government. Somewhere along the way it becomes just the Terran Federation. about 5 or 6 hundred years into it's life it falls into a period of anarchy. During the long night we hear of Sworld Worlders (who name their homeworlds after swords, and are very touchy about their noble dignities) and Space Vikings, (a sworld worlder profesion of going out and looting the fallen planets of the former federation), The Federation is succeeded after many hundreds of years by an Empire....
There's more after, There's LOTs inbetween. Here are the Titles:
Four Day Planet/Lone Star Planet
(Lone Star Planet is not actully THFH story it's also been published as the short story 'A planet for Texans')
Uller Uprising
Little Fuzzy
Fuzzy Sapiens
Fuzzies and Other People
(the three above are his only trilogy, the last of which didn't see print until the 1990's and then only because the manuscript was found in a trunk in someone's storage.)
The Cosmic Computer (Also Published as 'Junkyard Planet')
Space Viking
Federation! (A short story omnibus)
Empire! (A short story omnibus)
The Worlds of H. Beam Piper (Not actually a THFH omnibus but a lot of his themes are still there.)
All of them very cool. All of them very traveller-esque.... or...
maybe
Traveller is Piper-esque?
