I seem to remember there was a list of novels that inspired Marc Miller for Traveller.
Does anyone else remember this?
Which book would have had that?
Does anyone else remember this?
Which book would have had that?
General Which Traveller book had a list of books that Traveller was inspired by?
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Dirk Le Daring
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Citizens of the Imperium may be the book you are looking for, p43 has the "answers". And 1001 Characters.
Only thing I could think of, hope this helps.
Only thing I could think of, hope this helps.
Condottiere
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Darth Vader/Star Wars would be an anomaly, since supposedly it was developed preLucas.
EnsignFlan
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ShapeShifter
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The biggest influence is the Dumarest novels by E.C. Tubb. They literally drip with that Classic Traveller vibe and are excellent to mine for many, many ideas. (I'm half-way through the series and have been taking notes for years).
Space Viking is another.
Little bits from The Mote in God's Eye (perhaps).
Space Viking is another.
Little bits from The Mote in God's Eye (perhaps).
Enoki
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Yea, I'd say the Jerry Pournelle novels are straight classic Traveller. They all have that military wargame vibe in space feel that dominates CT.
ShapeShifter
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I'm surprised that Mr. Miller didn't make the Moties a player-character species. They're cute/unsettling/sinister at the same time.
MichaelSTee
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One of the earlier drafts of T5 has a list of works that inspired our fave game.
Marc has mentioned and referenced Pournell/Stirling/Niven's CoDoVerse; Bk4 SCREAMS early CoDo, as in Pounelle and Stirling's Falconberg's Legion series. But Marc didn't list that subset of the CoDoVerse in T5...
Note that the CoDo founded in the Falconberg series is the same one still around in the Moties trilogy.
Here's the T5 list from the CD draft
- Aldiss, Brian, editor, Collection, Space Opera.
- Aldiss, Brian, editor, Collection, Galactic Empires Volume One.
- Aldiss, Brian, editor, Collection, Galactic Empires Volume Two.
- Anderson, Poul, Novel, The Man Who Counts.
- Anderson, Poul, Novel, Hiding Place.
- Anderson, Poul, Series, the Dominic Flandry novels (1951-1993).
- Anvil, Christopher, Collection, Interstellar Patrol.
- Anvil, Christopher, Novel, Pandora's Legions.
- Asimov, Isaac, Series, Robot Series.
- Asimov, Isaac, Novel, The Currents of Space.
- Asimov, Isaac, Novel, Pebble in the Sky.
- Bailey, Barrington J, Novel, Star Winds.
- Bailey, Barrington J, Novel, Star Virus.
- Barnes Arthur K, Novel, Interplanetary Hunter.
- Bates, Leslie, Novel, Friends in High Places.
- Bates, Leslie, Short Story, Homecoming.
- Blish, James, Collection, The Seedling Stars.
- Brin, David, Series, Uplift.
- Brunette, Paul, Novel, The Death of Wisdom.
- Brunette, Paul, Novel, To Dream of Chaos.
- Brunette, Paul, unpublished, The Backwards Mask.
- Carson, Matthew, Novel, The Backwards Mask.
- Clark, Arthur C, Short Story, The Ultimate Melody.
- de Camp, L Sprague, Series, Krishna.
- Del Rey, Lester, Short Story, Instinct.
- Dougherty, Martin J., Novel, Diaspora Phoenix.
- Dozois, Gardner, editor, Collection, The New Space Opera.
- Drake, David, Novel, Hammer's Slammers.
- Godwin, Tom, Short Story, “The Cold Equations”.
- Hamilton, Edmond, Novel, Exile.
- Hartwell, David G, editor, Collection, The Space Opera Renaissance.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Space Cadet.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Red Planet.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Farmer In The Sky.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, The Puppet Masters.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Starman Jones.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Tunnel In The Sky.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Citizen of the Galaxy.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Starship Troopers.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Short Story, Life-Line.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Time for the Stars.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, The Star Beast.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, The Rolling Stones.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Between Planets.
- Heinlein, Robert A, Novel, Podkayne of Mars.
- Knight, Damon, Short Story, The Country of the Kind.
- Laumer, Keith, Series, Bolo Series.
- Laumer, Keith, Series, Retief Series.
- Leinster, Murray, Short Story, Plague.
- Leinster, Murray, Collection, Colonial Survey, Gnome Press, 1957.
- Leinster, Murray, Collection, The Med Series, Ace, May 1983.
- Leinster, Murray, Collection, Med Ship, edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon, Baen, June 2002.
- MacApp, C C, Novel, Prisoners of the Sky.
- MacApp, C C, Novel, Secret of the Sunless World.
- MacApp, C C, Novel, Recall Not Earth.
- McCullom, Michael, Novel, Life Probe.
- Niven, Larry, Series, Ringworld.
- Niven, Larry, Novel, The Mote In God's Eye.
- Niven, Larry, Novel, The Gripping Hand.
- Niven, Larry, Series, The Man-Kzin Wars anthologies based on the Known Space novels by Larry Niven.
- Norton, Andre, Novel, The Stars Are Ours!.
- Norton, Andre, Novel, Galactic Derelict.
- Norton, Andre, Novel, Star Rangers.
- Nourse, Alan E, Short Story, Brightside Crossing.
- Piper, H Beam, Novel, The Cosmic Computer.
- Piper, H Beam, Novel, Space Viking.
- Pohl, Frederick, Series, Heechee.
- Rowley, Christopher, Novel, Starhammer.
- Rowley, Christopher, Novel, Vang: The Military Form.
- Rowley, Christopher, Novel, Vang: The Battlemaster.
- Russell, Eric Frank, Novel, Wasp.
- Saberhagen, Fred, Series, Berserkers.
- Schmitz, James, Novel, The Witches of Karres.
- Sheckley, Robert, Short Story, Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead.
- Simak, Clifford, Short Story, Desertion.
- Smith, Cordwainer, Collection, The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith.
- Smith, E E "Doc", Series, Lensman.
- Swanwick, Michael, Novel, Vacuum Flowers.
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Series, Traveller Novels.
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, Not In Our Stars, Avon Books, New York, USA, 1986..
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, Become the Hunted, Avon Books, New York, USA, 19nn..
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, The Universal Prey, Avon Books, New York, USA, 19nn..
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, The Praesidium of Archive, Avon Books, New York, USA, 19nn..
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, Tales of the Concordat 1: The Empire's Legacy.
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, Tales of the Concordat 2:.
- Swycaffer, Jefferson, Novel, Tales of the Concordat 3: .
- Tubb, E C, Series, Dumarest Series.
- Van Vogt, A E, Novel, Slan.
- Van Vogt, A E, Novel, The Weapon Shops of Isher.
- Vance, Jack, Series, Demon Princes series.
- Vance, Jack, Series, Tschai.
- Varley, John, Novella, The Persistence of Vision.
- Viehl, S L, Series, Stardoc (series).
- Vinge, Vernor, Novel, A Fire Upon The Deep.
- Vinge, Vernor, Novel, A Deepness In The Sky.
- Vinge, Vernor, Novel, The Witling.
- Webber, David, Series, Honor Harrington.
- Wells, H G, Short Story, When the Sleeper Wakes.
- White, Steve, Novel, Prince of Sunset.
- White, Steve, Novel, Emperor of Dawn.
- Williams, Walter Jon, Series, Drake Maijstral Series.
- Williams, Walter Jon, Series, Dread Empire's Fall.
Enoki
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I think Pournelle's Janissaries comes closer in many respects to Traveller. You have straight up mercenaries working for an alien drug cartel on a low-tech world where they are supposed to take control to supply the raw drug materials in exchange for weapons and "stuff," a highly technical term. Realizing that the cartel plans on snuffing them with illegal nukes once they've supplied all the drugs they can, the mercenaries embark on a scheme to survive that and bring the planet to a point they can force the cartel to negotiate in the future for those drugs.
Think Byzantine cataphracts versus recoilless rifles and machineguns, with starships that those same recoilless rifles can trash if they get in range.
Think Byzantine cataphracts versus recoilless rifles and machineguns, with starships that those same recoilless rifles can trash if they get in range.
Matt Wilson
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The Dumarest novels are great. And you can get the e-book versions for crazy cheap, like ~$2. And there are literally dozens of them.
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